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WASHINGTON -- The US State Department warned Americans Friday against travel to northern Laos due to reports of fighting between government troops and unidentified groups.
Laotian government forces have been involved in sporadic fighting for several years with armed groups, some of them ethnic Hmongs opposed to the government in Vientiane.