The U.S. Marine Corps' Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, will conduct simulated fires missions in the Luzon Strait.

A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users -- the West Philippine Sea.

Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand operate the F-16, while the Philippines has placed an order for the ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China conducted military drills around Taiwan for a second day Wednesday focusing on the Taiwan Strait separating the self-governing island democracy from China that is a ...

Beijing said its ground forces had conducted long-range live-fire drills as part of its Strait Thunder-2025A exercises, though it did not give an exact location for them. In a time of both ...

The exercises follow a rise in Chinese rhetoric against Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, who China called a "parasite" on Tuesday, and come on the heels of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Asia ...

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(Photo: AFP/Kiyoshi Ota) TOKYO: The United States will ensure "robust, ready and credible deterrence" in the Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Air National Guard deployed more than 300 Airmen from the 124th Fighter Wing on Saturday to Southwest Asia in support of combat and peacekeeping operations within the U ...

The toll from Myanmar's earthquake continues to rise, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount ...

BOISE—The Idaho Air National Guard has deployed more than 300 Airmen from the 124th Fighter Wing to Southwest Asia in support of U.S. Central Command operations. The deployment, which began on March ...