The young woman, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, was a 9-year-old running naked down a road, screaming in agony from the jellied gasoline coating her body and burning through skin and muscle down to bone.

The iconic photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc as a 9-year-old surviving a napalm attack became a defining image of the Vietnam War. Kim Phuc sought political asylum in Canada nearly 30 years ago.

Phan Thi Kim Phuc, now 53, said she had resigned herself to live with the scars and pain her whole life, until she saw a TV program about Dr. Jill Waibel’s laser treatments.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, who endured severe burns and years of operations after a 1972 napalm attack in her native Vietnam, shared her story of recovery, forgiveness and Christian faith Sunday with ...

Kim Phuc Phan Thi was only 9 years old when she was at the center of Nick Ut’s photograph, naked and screaming in agony as she ran down a road, The Guardian reported. Napalm was dropped by a ...

Mostly we do not see the napalm, the jellied gasoline that is incinerating the flesh on 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc’s back at temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees. That’s why she is crying.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, known as "napalm girl" in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken five decades ago, as she fled an attack during the Vietnam War, now helps Ukrainians seek refuge in Canada.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi lives in Canada and works with the Kim Foundation International, which provides aid to child victims of war around the world. This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi is known around the world as “The Girl in the Picture.” In 1972, at the age of 9, she was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that shows her screaming and ...

Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, on Monday escorted 236 refugees from Russia's war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada. Phuc’s iconic ...

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the “The Napalm Girl” in the famous 1972 Associated Press Vietnam photograph, will be the speaker at the Ashland Area Vietnam Era Veterans Recognition Dinner on March 29.