Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Higgins transits through the Arabian Gulf on Dec. 1, 2015, during exercise ...

.a{fill:#000;opacity:0.65;}.b{fill:#fff;opacity:1.0;} play-rounded-fill The South China Sea has become a theater of increasingly dangerous military encounters between American and Chinese forces. What ...

The vast expanse of the South China Sea has become a theater of maritime brinkmanship, where modern naval powers play a ...

BEIJING — China’s military said Wednesday that it monitored and “drove away” a U.S. destroyer that sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the busy waterway of the South China Sea, while the U.S ...

A US Navy guided-missile destroyer performed a Freedom of Navigation operation (FONOP) near disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Wednesday, just two days after two Chinese military ...

This post was updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. A pair of U.S. naval vessels carried out Washington’s first reported Taiwan Strait transit of 2026, according to Chinese and U.S. officials.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Higgins transits through the Arabian Gulf on Dec. 1, 2015, during exercise Spartan Kopis. (MC2 Gabriel Bevan/Navy) The U.S. Navy issued a strong ...