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BEIJING — This is our weekly look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: U.S. ...

TULSA, Okla. — A vessel that bears the name of Oklahoma's second-largest city has been commissioned as the newest warship in the U.S. Navy's fleet. The Tulsa was commissioned on Saturday at a pier in San Francisco. The vessel is an Independence-class combat ship. ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska is about 3,000 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, but the state's new Republican governor is offering President Donald Trump the use of the Alaska National Guard to patrol it, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Gov. ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates' war in Yemen alongside Saudi Arabia bled into the start of a biennial Abu Dhabi arms fair Sunday, which saw the Emirates sign $1.3 billion in weapons deals. ...

MUNICH — Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, said Saturday the U.S. has a path to salvage the tattered Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by agreeing to mutual inspections with Russia. 'Inspections are key to everything,' Moniz, ...

MUNICH — President Donald Trump threatened Sunday on Twitter to release more than 800 Islamic State fighters captured in Syria if Europe does not 'step up' and put them on trial. Trump's message to the U.K., France, Germany is the latest instance of American officials, ...

Serving in the military is both an honor and a service to those who volunteer in this great country of the United States of America. However, many potential volunteers are disqualified for various reasons, thus the reason for my letter. ...

MUNICH – Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has urged European leaders to reject pressure from the United States to leave a nuclear accord designed to keep Tehran from making atomic weapons. His comments at the Munich Security Conference here come one day after U.S. ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Only the Syrian state can protect groups in northern Syria and the army will 'liberate every inch of Syria' from foreign troops, Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday. He did not specifically mention the planned withdrawal of 2,000 American troops from northern Syria, ...

MUNICH — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe said Saturday he does not oppose Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and sought to clarify his previous remarks which he said were misinterpreted as an attack. ...

ONBOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Saturday he had made no decisions on whether the border wall was militarily necessary, a key determination required before military construction funds could be redirected to build it. On Friday, ...

MUNICH - Vice President Mike Pence repeated warnings to Turkey not to proceed with the purchase of Russia's S-400 missile defense system, a day after Turkey dismissed the first of two deadlines to cease with the planned sale. Pence, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, ...

MUNICH — Amid plans to withdraw 1,000 or more American troops from Afghanistan, several key U.S. lawmakers, after meeting with President Ashaf Ghani on Saturday, warned against a wider drawdown like the one President Donald Trump has planned for Syria. ...

WASHINGTON — Despite objections from Congress, White House officials will shift about $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build President Donald Trump's controversial southern border wall, potentially delaying repairs and upgrades for facilities at a host of bases worldwide. ...

At the Munich Security Conference, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan met with a dozen of the coalition partner countries contributing troops to the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Following the meeting, ...

Authorities have identified the man killed by security forces at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi's north gate Thursday. Daniel E. King, 37, died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office. His identity was first reported by KZTV-10 News. ...

SAN DIEGO – The Navy's top officer Friday defended the decision to keep from the public eye a damning internal report on the 2017 warship Fitzgerald collision that killed seven sailors. Speaking to reporters after his appearance at the U.S. Naval Institute's West 2019 conference here, ...

MUNICH — Acting U.S. defense chief Patrick Shanahan on Friday called on allies to expand efforts against the Islamic State globally, even as the U.S. plans to withdraw its troops from Syria. 'While the time for U.S. troops on the ground in northeast Syria winds down, ...

Although a small, dusty town where residents constantly battled heat and drought may seem an unlikely setting for a heroic effort at colony building and racial self-determination, this community of 'race pioneers,' with its commitment to limiting the parameters of prejudice, ...

Unlike President Donald Trump, troops don't seem to view either immigration across our southern border or Mexico itself as much of a national-security threat, the results of a recent Military Times poll suggest. On Friday, Trump declared a national emergency along the U.S. border with Mexico, ...