The US and the Philippines kicked off their flagship annual military drills Monday, touted as a “rehearsal” for Manila’s defense amid ongoing tensions with China. Billed as the “Super Bowl ...

US and Philippine Joint Combat Drills Show Trump Is Not Scaling Back on South China Sea Region MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 14,000 American and Filipino forces will take part in battle ...

China on Monday said the joint military drills by the US and the Philippines “undermine regional strategic stability.” “The Philippines, in collusion with external countries, has been ...

Discreetly at first, now openly and explicitly, Balikatan has turned into joint preparations for war with China. Marine Lt. Gen. James Glynn, US exercise director for Balikatan 2025, told the ...

The US military has deployed an anti-ship missile launcher for the first time on Batan Island in the Philippines, as Marines unloaded the high-precision weapon on the northern tip of the ...

Beijing on Tuesday said the United States used ‘various despicable methods to steal secrets of other countries, interfere in ...

China has fiercely opposed the combat drills as provocative. Its aircraft carrier group sailed by a few days earlier near Batanes, where the U.S. military had deployed the Navy Marine ...

Philippines Calls Joint US Drills 'Defense Rehearsal' as China Tensions Simmer By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - The United States is deploying around 9,000 troops to the Philippines for this year ...

MANILA: The US and the Philippines will start their flagship annual military drills Monday (April 21), touted as a "rehearsal” for the defence of the nation amid ongoing tensions with China.

A U.S. Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS, fires at a drone during a live-fire joint Philippines-U.S. military exercise at the Philippine Navy training camp in San Antonio, Zambales ...