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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...
Philippines Condemns China's Swarm of Forces Near Disputed Shoal and Vows to Defend the Territory The latest flare-up in the long-seething territorial disputes around the Second Thomas Shoal came up in closed-door talks...
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...
Marcos Says the Philippines Will Be Pulled into Any War over Taiwan, Despite China's Protest Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said his country would inevitably be drawn “kicking and screaming” into any war...
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Chinese Ship Runs Aground Off Philippines-Occupied Island in the Disputed South China Sea A Chinese ship ran aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China...
US and Philippine Forces Cancel Ship-Sinking Drill After World War II-Era Target Prematurely Sinks A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
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Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
![decommissioned Philippine Navy BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) takes on water before sinking](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Philippines_US_Combat_Drills_25019.jpg?itok=Zgmp4jdL "In this handout photo, provided by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office (PAO), the decommissioned Philippine Navy BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) takes on water before sinking while being positioned as vessel target prompting the cancellation of a live-fire drill as part of a joint US-Philippines military exercises called Balikatan or "shoulder to shoulder" approximately 30 nautical miles west of San Antonio, Zambales, Philippines on Monday, May 5, 2025. (Armed Forces of the Philippines PAO via AP)")
