This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

China has acquired the capability to penetrate Japan's ballistic missile defense system, a Japanese think tank warned.

Australia separately protested last month after accusing a Chinese J-16 fighter jet of firing flares that passed within 30 meters (100 feet) of an Australian P-8 Poseidon surveillance jet in daylight ...

Dozens of tiny towns, settlements really, that once dotted Palm Beach County have disappeared through the years, buried under ...

Governments frequently disagree over the names of places. Here’s how mapping apps have dealt with various feuds.

Tuesday afternoon, Professor Michael Thornton, an assistant teaching history professor at Northeastern University, discussed ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 28.

The Philippines and Japan pledged to enhance their defense alliance through training exercises, logistical activities, ...

Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday that he would skip next week's meeting of finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies in Cape Town, South Africa, to focus on ...

From 1929 to 1945, Okunoshima was a secret chemical weapons testing site during World War II, where Japan produced over 6,000 tons of poison gas. The island was deliberately kept off maps and ...

China has increased military activity near Taiwan, which it claims as its own, and spent a record 355 days in 2023 patrolling waters near the Senkaku Islands, administered by Japan but also ...