As a Vietnam-era veteran myself, I'm interested and will be praying for your people. I'll give a couple of thoughts-yes, Paul is referring to Asia Minor in these verses but as a Vietnam-era veteran I use it in context in the war in Southeast Asia. These verses are meant to help us bear, pray for, and comfort each other: Something I'm either not actually seeing and/or observing or it's actually missing...
Praise to the God of All Comfort
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,[a] about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
https://www.biblegat...r 1&version=NIV
Here are some CMA archival references that go back decades like early 20th century and the Vietnam war, CMA was right in the thick of it even during 1968 Tet offensive...
http://www.cmallianc...ives/indo-china
http://www.cmallianc.../challenge-laos
Samuel Rees Howells: A Life of Intercession
The Legacy of Prayer and Spiritual Warfare of an Intercessor by Richard Maton
http://www.byfaith.c...torebooks11.htm
"Behind Enemy Lines" by Chuck Dean is another book resource.
Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand: Voice of the Martyrs ministry
http://torturedforchrist.com/writings/