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US planning more regular South China Sea patrols: report
Sep 02, 2017 (AFP)
The newspaper said the aim is to create a more consistent posture to counter China's maritime claims, rather than a more ad hoc approach favored during Barack O...
Granite, Obayashi preparing new Marine base on Guam
Sep 01, 2017 (UPI)
The award, announced by Granite this week, was issued by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific for the Finegayan Utilities and Site Improvements Phas...
US urges Russia to open war games to media
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
"If the Russian Federation is truly interested in stability and security, then be transparent, invite media to see everything that they do," Hodges told reporte...
Japan opposition picks former FM as new leader
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
Seiji Maehara, 55, beat out former top government spokesman Yukio Edano, who was a high-profile face during the country's 2011 tsunami disaster. The centre-left...
US orders Russia to close San Francisco consulate
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
The State Department said the decision was made "in the spirit of parity," after Moscow in July ordered a dramatic reduction of US diplomatic staff in Russia. A...
China says it hopes India will 'learn lessons' from standoff
Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)
The two nations resolved the deadlock over the Doklam area claimed by both China and Bhutan, an ally of India, just days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra M...
Russia says massive Zapad-2017 drills 'purely defensive'
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
"The Zapad-2017 exercises have an anti-terrorism focus as well as a purely defensive character," Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin said at a press briefin...
Chinese troops to patrol border area after India stand-off
Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying refused to disclose future plans for the road project that had triggered the confrontation on the remote Doklam platea...
India says military stand-off with China ends
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
The foreign ministry said it had reached an "understanding" after talks with Beijing about the tense confrontation in an area near the Indian border that is cla...
US Navy collisions a propaganda windfall for China
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
Four accidents this year alone, including two fatal ones in two months, resulted in the dismissal this week of the commander of the iconic US Seventh Fleet -- t...
NATO chief demands Russian 'transparency' on war games
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
The drill, named Zapad 2017 ("West"), has stoked fresh alarm in NATO-members Poland and the Baltic states as a more assertive Russia pushes back against what it...
US won't pull back from S. China Sea ops: general
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces commander, said the American military still had "credibility... all over the world" despite the incidents, wh...
China slams reported Indian road project on border
Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)
India's newly approved road project will run through the disputed Ladakh region close to Pangong Lake, the country's Hindustan Times reported Tuesday. A separat...
Pentagon chief in Kiev as Ukraine seeks battlefield weapons
Aug 23, 2017 (AFP)
Kiev is hoping for more lethal weaponry from the United States, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to push back the well-armed separatists who have o...
Sri Lanka's president sacks outspoken justice minister
Aug 23, 2017 (AFP)
Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe had publicly denounced the government's $1.1 billion sale last month of a 70 percent stake in Hambantota port to state-owned China Merchan...
Erdogan says top Turkish general must accept demotion
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
In a rare show of tension between the military and Erdogan, Turkish media reported that Lieutenant General Zekai Aksakalli had wanted to resign from the armed f...
India says China stand-off will end soon
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
Indian and Chinese soldiers have for more than two months been facing off over a separate territorial dispute in the Doklam plateau, which India says is Bhutane...
Top American general says attack on Japan same as on US
Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)
General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his Japanese counterpart at the defence ministry in Tokyo, wrapping up a regional to...
New US envoy reassures Japan over security pact
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
Tokyo remains on alert against potential military provocations by Pyongyang after North Korea threatened to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of Guam, US...
India, China troops in high-altitude clash: officials
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
Chinese troops threw stones at Indian soldiers near Pangong Lake, a major tourist attraction in the picturesque mountain region of Ladakh on Tuesday, an Indian ...
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