Abdul Manan Magtiblo watched the excavator dump a piece of Gebe Island into the back of a truck. Barely a thicket remained on the buzz-cut upland above Umera village as the vehicle drove off to the ...

It’s part of a Pacific tour that will include stops in Guam, Japan and the Philippines in his first visit to the region in his role as Pentagon chief. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command did not respond t ...

JOHN BELLINO / U.S. NAVY Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a light moment Monday with Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. JOHN BELLINO / U.

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. Given a cloud over the Quad and our Indo-Pacific stakes, we must hedge ...

No new evacuations were ordered. “We are still waiting for instructions from the government to evacuate,” said a resident, ...

If we use trade and defense-spending as two metrics of allied burden-sharing, there are no Indo-Pacific allies that are judged to be ... access to dispersed positions in the Southwest (Nansei) island ...

From the Taiwan Strait to the Korean Peninsula, a drone arms race threatens to turn simmering tensions into open conflict.

The eruption was recorded at several monitoring stations on Flores island, Muhammad Wafid, chief of Indonesia’s Geology ... the streets of ash and fallen trees using simple tools, such as ...