A groundbreaking ceremony held on a remote Pacific island marked the start of a project—spearheaded by a Chinese state-owned ...

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific region. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University. You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com.

It was the first time he landed troops on an enemy-held island in World War II. Unscathed, he went on to make five more landings in the Pacific, survived three typhoons and helped fight off ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...

Spanning 1,200 miles from mainland Alaska toward Siberia and knifing between the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean, the more than 300 mostly barren Aleutian Islands would have made for a perilous WWII ...

Sixty-five U.S. soldiers and Marines supported the largest iteration of Operation Render Safe in the islands ... led mission to clear World War II ordnance from the Pacific, according to the ...

(Lance Cpl. Hannah Hollerud/Marine Corps) The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after ...