Insurgency in Laos
Part of the Third Indochina War
Date2 December 1975 – present
Location
Southern Laos (royalists and rightists); Central and Northern Laos (Hmong rebels)
Status

Ongoing low-intensity conflict

  • 2007 Hmong-led coup attempt against the Lao government foiled; alleged plotters tried and exonerated in the U.S.
Belligerents

 Laos

  • Lao People's Revolutionary Party
  • Supported by:
  •  Vietnam (from 1976)
  •  North Vietnam (until 1976)
  •  Soviet Union (until 1989)
  • Hmong insurgents
  • Supported by:
  •  Thailand (until 1990)
  •  United States (until 1990)
  • Neo Hom (1981–2007)

Royalists:

  • Lao National Liberation Front
  • Royal Lao Democratic Government (1982)
  • Supported by:
  • Royal Lao Government in Exile
  •  China (until 1988)
  • CambodiaDemocratic Kampuchea (until 1979)
  • CambodiaKhmer Rouge
  • CambodiaParty of Democratic Kampuchea (1981–1990)

Rightists:

  • United Front for the Liberation of Laos
  • Supported by:
  •  Thailand (early to mid–1980s)