China's 12,000-ton "Monster" vessel has since taken advantage of the Philippine Coast Guard ship's departure for repairs.

MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Iran sign a broad partnership treaty in the Kremlin.

United States and Japan are dusting off old geopolitical frameworks for the Pacific not seen since World War II.

China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense ...

Chinese ships have challenged vessels from the US, the Philippines and other nations in disputed waters. Russia and China have held numerous ... China Sea while continuing with the construction of ...

The United States and China appear destined for a military conflict, with bellicose rhetoric on both sides, an escalating arms race and Beijing widely considered the most serious threat to the U.S.

Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where a second day of ...

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate ...

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...

Parts of the popular island of ... University in Japan, warned "the sovereignty question" is always at the center of conflicts between Bangkok and Phnom Penh. "Territorial disputes have long ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their analysis, the last eruption from Zavaritskii was in 800 BC.

A prominent US security analyst has called on president-elect Donald Trump to demonstrate the firm line he will take on China by resuming live-fire practice drills on disputed islands in the East ...