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

The U.S. aims to use the First Island Chain—comprising Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines—to restrict China's naval access to ...

Over the past years, following the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, shared benefits, and win-win ...

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

This tiny island in the South Pacific promised freedom and isolation—but it came at a terrible cost. The case of Pitcairn is one of history, exploitation, and justice long delayed. Gabbard fires ...

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michener The plot of South Pacific centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II who falls in love with a middle-aged expatriate French plantation owner.

This year, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month offers ... distant worlds through our neighbors right here on Long Island. Sketches morph into massive sculptures in the work of ...