The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from, they identified the Marianas ...

Japan has accused China of conducting unnotified maritime scientific research within its exclusive economic zone around its southernmost island in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo said Tuesday. The alleged ...

The Marines will practice Corps-level command and control, 21st-century foraging and air assault in a projection into the ...

China seized an island in the South China Sea ... campaign of expansion and influence buying across the South China Sea and Pacific as Beijing rapidly expands its naval might.

MANILA, April 28 (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Monday there was no truth to news reports that Beijing has seized control of a disputed reef in the South ... to Thitu Island, the largest ...

US Navy Photo Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is operating in the South China Sea ... the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD-8), trains U.S. Navy Aviation Support ...

The exercise "demonstrates the growing synergy among like-minded partners in maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific ... near Pag-asa Island in the South China Sea over the weekend.

But further south ... the 'first island chain', a ring of territories running from Japan to the Philippines, to form a natural barrier against Chinese military expansion into the Pacific.

Members of the Hawaii-based 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment set up shop in the Batanes Islands of ... made with the Western Pacific in mind, with a particular focus on the South China Sea — a ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea ... outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands. The release of the images comes as US ...

While 18 million voters will troop to the polls across Australia, many citizens across the Pacific will only be vaguely aware of the festival of democracy thousands of kilometres to their south ...