The United States is deploying around 9,000 troops to the Philippines for this year's joint military exercises, as the allies ...

The Philippine and US air forces kicked off joint exercises Monday aimed at enhancing "strategic deterrence" as tensions with ...

MANILA, Philippines — About 14,000 American and Filipino forces ... military official said Tuesday. The annual joint Balikatan — Tagalog for “shoulder-to-shoulder” — exercises between ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration intends to boost military ... have spiked between Chinese and Philippine coast guard and naval forces in the last ...

He said the U.S. military was being rebuilt ... but confrontations have spiked between Chinese and Philippine coast guard and naval forces in the last two years. Hegseth said that U.S. Indo ...

Hostile interactions and confrontations between the Philippine and Chinese forces have increased in ... powered water cannons and other aggressive military tactics against Philippine ships that ...

The Philippines’ Balikatan, or “shoulder to shoulder”, military drills with the United ... mix of equipment” – including the China-opposed Typhon missile system – to be deployed ...

ABOARD BRP JOSE RIZAL, South China Sea (AP) — The United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a ...

The top U.S. commander in the Pacific is warning senators that the military support that China and North Korea are providing ...

Philippine Brig ... Colonel Doug Krugman of the 1st Marines Expeditionary Force as he answers questions regarding the upcoming joint military exercises during a press conference at Camp Aguinaldo ...