As Veterans Day approaches, columnist Joe Blackstock shares stories – big and small – recalling those who have served in the ...

The existing world order has been with us for so long that we have grown indifferent, even callous and unappreciative of its beauty and effectiveness. That apathy began to change when America elected ...

After months of uncertainty over U.S. aid, the defense secretary pledged that Washington would keep funding programs that ...

By Maria Veronica “Vernie” G. Caparas* That fateful LapuLapu Day Festival on 26 April 2025 not only quashed the future of eleven lives; it bared the ...

For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...

The newly established joint task force with the United States will help boost the Philippines' capabilities to respond to calamities, according to Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth says he had a "positive" meeting with China’s defense chief Dong Jun as both sides agreed to open ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. capped his four-day visit to South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declined to say whether the U.S. is preparing military strikes on Venezuela, while blasting ...

THE United States and the Philippines have unveiled the creation of a task force to deter aggression in the South China Sea ...

The announcement comes the same day War Secretary Pete Hegseth met with his counterpart, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro, in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, for a ...