Charlee LeBlanc, a Red Cross regional program specialist and National Guard veteran, was recognized this week with the Red Cross’ Life Saving Award for Professional Responders for her actions in providing aid to a man at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait earlier this year.

Satellite imagery showed that China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a pier while under construction.

Grab a stick, tie a cucumber to it and try to capture this mythical water-dwelling creature at Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, a city in Iwate prefecture.

The University of Hawaii is poised to renew a controversial contract to conduct research for the U.S. military worth up to $285 million over 10 years.

The U.S. sailor accused of running into and injuring several people near a popular Japanese beach in 2022 was found guilty on all counts Friday but avoids jail time with a suspended sentence.

The destroyer JS Sazanami, along with Australian and New Zealand vessels, sailed through the Taiwan Strait.

The third indictment of a U.S. service member on sexual assault charges this year prompted fresh protests from an Okinawa city this week.

North Korea has likely enriched enough uranium to build a “double-digit” number of bombs and is making progress in its efforts to develop more powerful and accurate missiles targeting rival South Korea. That’s according to what Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

A joint venture between a California construction company and a Japanese developer acquired another contract for more facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz as the Guam installation inches closer to full operation.

The Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index still rates the U.S. as the region’s most powerful nation, leading China on six out of eight measures. However, America’s military advantage is eroding, according to the report released Tuesday by the Australian think tank.

Tuberville, R-Ala., imposed the block on Clark’s promotion earlier this month over concerns about the general’s role in keeping quiet Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization after complications from a surgery to treat prostate cancer.

Krathon retains Category 3-equivalent status, remains quasi-stationary southwest of Taiwan; forecast to weaken as it makes landfall and moves over Taiwan, possibly dissipating Saturday while still over the island.

Recent incursions into its airspace and territorial waters by China and Russia has left Japan feeling vulnerable, its defense minister said.

The skipper of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Suzutsuki was replaced in July.

US and South Korean diplomats are meeting in Seoul for another round of negotiations on sharing the cost of stationing 28,500 troops in South Korea.

American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China’s expressions of alarm, two Philippine officials said.

Naval Base Guam issued a shelter-in-place order Wednesday afternoon after the installation received a bomb threat. The order was lifted approximately three hours later.

China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, stirring security concerns in the region already tense over Beijing’s territorial claims and rivalry with the U.S.

Personnel from 10 nations will join in a massive 10-day Army exercise in Hawaii next month with drills taking place on three of the state’s islands. The Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center kicks off training on Oct. 7 with soldiers fanning out across Oahu, Maui and the Big Island.