Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of March 14, the locations of 12 ...

In retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 US Air Force bombers struck Japan in 1942. On their way back, with fuel depleted, Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle and his men had to ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

By Hiroshi Nakanishi, Kyoto University Professor Ever since Donald Trump returned to the U.S. presidency, the world has never ...

In July 1944, during World War II, hundreds of economic policymakers from dozens of countries gathered at a hotel in Bretton ...

The frigate and its two sister ships, Brisbane and Sydney, are Australia’s most potent surface combatants. Its main armament is a 48-cell vertical launch system (VLS) capable of firing a mix of ...

U.S. negotiators are meeting separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia to try and broker a deal to end the three-year-long war.

For 80 years, the United States was the undisputed leader of Western democracies. But Donald Trump is discarding allies and values in favor of power and money as he steers America into the camp of the ...

North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is in East Asia. The country is known for ...

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Even as China offers itself to nations like Japan as a more reliable partner, its ships are pushing into their neighborhoods — sometimes on the very same day. By David Pierson Martin Fackler and ...