Beijing — The U.S. Navy on Wednesday sailed a destroyer close to China-controlled islands in the South China Sea. Washington said the patrol was aimed at asserting freedom of navigation through ...

A U.S. aircraft carrier is operating near the Philippines, while a Chinese aircraft carrier is visiting Hong Kong.

The Philippines and the United States began a two-day joint patrol in the South China Sea on Wednesday, the Philippine military said in a statement, a move that would likely irk China.

China asserts sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, an archipelago with competing ...

China US Navy responds after China claims American warship 'illegally intruded' into the South China Sea The USS Gabrielle Giffords was commissioned on June 10, 2017 in Galveston, Texas ...

A statement from the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, based in Japan, said its operations in the South China Sea demonstrate a commitment “to upholding a free and open Indo-Pacific region where all ...

U.S. and Philippine warships rendezvoused near a disputed South China Sea feature to conduct a joint maritime patrol on Wednesday. USS Mobile (LCS-26) and BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16) met off Leslie ...

China has created 3,200 acres of artificial land in the sea. BEIJING -- Just off the beach in Okinawa, Japan, at the American Kadena Air Force Base, the Navy Maritime Patrol Squadron Four takes to ...

KUALA LUMPUR — The U.S. Navy sent a pair of ships to patrol in the vicinity of a mineral rights dispute between Malaysia and ... (DDG-52) transit the South China Sea April 18, 2020. US Navy ...

Top geopolitical risks that could arise in 2025 05:18. Over the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea — A Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet of a Philippine patrol plane Tuesday in a ...

A U.S. Navy statement Wednesday said the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth arrived for resupply in the Philippines after completing a weeklong patrol in the South China Sea that took it near the ...