House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) The Marine Exercise (MAREX) 2025 and "Salaknib" exercises between the Philippines and the United States (US) shouldn't be viewed as an action against anybody in particular, House...
This photograph, released by Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, and taken from a Taiwan Air Force P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft, shows a Chinese Cloud Shadow WZ-10 drone near Taiwan, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP) TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered airspace and waters surrounding Taiwan between Sunday and Monday, the self-governing island republic's Defense Ministry said. China said the drills were a response to recent statements and...
Chinese navy troops attending a joint naval drill with Iran and Russia stand on the deck of their warship in an official arrival ceremony at Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — China, Iran and...
China conducted its own “combat patrols” in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, April 7, the same day joint naval drills were conducted by the Philippines, the United States, Japan, and Australia. A statement published on state-owned Global Times said that the “Southern Theater...
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF) recently trained together on maintaining AIM-9 missile launchers as part of the ongoing Cope Thunder 23-1 Exercise. (Maintenance officers, technicians, and specialists from the Philippine Air Force and United States Pacific Air...
BEIJING, China -- China said Monday it had organised fresh military drills around Taiwan, as a delegation of visiting United States lawmakers were set to meet the island's leader just weeks after a similar trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heightened fears of conflict. This handout picture taken...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday condemned China's military drills encircling Taiwan as "a significant escalation". US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken looks on at the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers meeting during the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting...
PINGTAN, China -- China fired ballistic missiles and deployed fighter jets Thursday as it held its largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan, a show of force condemned by Washington as a gross overreaction to Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island. Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan...
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday urged the US military to leave South Korea, pledging to build up the DPRK's nuclear weapons in response to the upcoming joint U.S.-South Korea military drills. Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's...
