Moscow’s forces claim to have started an offensive to dislodge Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia, their first significant effort in more than five weeks since the start of Kyiv’s incursion.
The new airfield is being built on reclaimed land in Oura Bay. The U.S. and Japanese governments agreed to move the base in 1996, but construction of the new site was repeatedly delayed by the Okinawa prefectural government.
Hundreds show up at various events at bases designed to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor those who died in them.
“Despite the strong opposition of the international community, North Korea continues to enhance its nuclear and missile capabilities,” Kim Yong Hyun told an audience of diplomats and military officials from over 60 countries.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith pledged this week to help the Philippine military develop capabilities to monitor its sea territory amid ongoing coast guard clashes with China, the latest top U.S. military officer to pledge support on behalf of the Philippines.
The USS Georgia — an Ohio-class, ballistic-missile submarine — joins two carrier strike groups in the Middle East, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Several service members have recently been indicted on sexual assault or attempted sexual assault charges. Okinawa leaders want to know how the U.S. military confirms such cases and how the accused are disciplined. “The information sharing system did not function at all,” the prefecture’s governor said.
The Russian military on Tuesday launched massive naval and air drills spanning across both hemispheres and including China in joint maneuvers.
Japanese prosecutors asked for a 2½-year prison term for a US sailor who admitted running drunkenly into a group of Japanese pedestrians, seriously injuring four, at a beach in 2022.
American and Japanese middle and high school students gathered here for a weekend of cultural exchanges and entrepreneurial role-playing.
The amphibious assault ship USS America stopped in South Korea last week, its first-ever visit to the country in the ship’s nearly 10-year history, the Navy said.
Bebinca finally strengthens into a typhoon. U.S. bases on Okinawa remain in TCCOR Storm Watch through Saturday evening.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the strengthening of his country’s nuclear force due to perceived threats by the United States and South Korea.
A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam on Monday, raising the death toll in the Southeast Asian country to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains that also damaged factories in export-focused northern industrial hubs.
The ministry said the “Northern United-2024” exercises would take place in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk farther north, but gave no details.
Previously, Akino Miyagi was indicted last October on charges of making threats and brandishing a metal object resembling a pipe bomb outside the consulate.
Japan lodged another protest with China last week, its third in less than two weeks, after it said Chinese coast guard vessels entered waters around Japanese islets in the East China Sea.
Nearly 100 Okinawans walked through the home of the 18th Wing during a tsunami evacuation drill over the weekend, many carrying fresh memories of an actual alert in April.
Passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating effects on the Defense Department, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in a letter to key members of Congress on Sunday.