US Says China’s Taiwan Drills ‘Unnecessarily’ Raised Tensions The PLA simulated a blockade of the global chip hub for two days this week with live-fire exercises encircling the island.
Rubio Fields Questions on Russia-Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela at Wide-Ranging News Conference Secretary of State Marco Rubio is weighing in on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defending the Trump...
Crews Are Safe Following Two Navy Crashes Two Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz crashed minutes apart in the South China Sea.
Navy Loses Two Aircraft From USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Within 30 Minutes The Navy's Pacific Fleet says a fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the...
Chinese Coast Guard Rams and Damages a Philippine Vessel Off an Island in the South China Sea Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government...
Philippines Protests China's Plan for a Nature Reserve at a Hotly Disputed Shoal The Philippines protested a plan by China to establish a nature reserve at one of the most hotly disputed shoals in the South...
Philippine Forces Deliver Supplies and Personnel to Disputed South China Sea Shoal Despite Tensions Filipino forces transported food, fuel and new personnel to a Philippine territorial outpost in a fiercely disputed shoal in...
Australia, Canada and Philippines Stage Air Defense Drills Off Disputed Shoal Guarded by China Australia, Canada and the Philippines deployed three warships and aircraft for drills against simulated aerial threats off a...
US Briefly Deploys 2 Warships to a Disputed South China Sea Shoal After Chinese Collision Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. Vietnam, Malaysia...
US Commander Says China Has Failed to Coerce Rival States in South China Sea Adm. Stephen Koehler, who oversees the largest naval fleet command in the world, gave assurances Friday in a Manila forum of...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-01/world-news-uschina-military-drills-filepic-get.jpg?itok=M5NzlIEf "A Taiwanese air force Mirage 2000 fighter jet takes off at Hsinchu Air Base in Hsinchu on Dec. 29, 2025. China launched "major" military exercises around Taiwan on December 29, in what it called a "stern warning" involving live-fire drills in waters and airspace near the island. Taiwan said Monday it had detected four Chinese coastguard ships near the island's waters. (Cheng Yu-Chen/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)")
