U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration would boost military ties with the Philippines ...

Deterrence is necessary in Asia in the face of “threats from the Communist Chinese” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in ...

US defence secretary meets Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos amid controversy over leaking of Yemen strike plans.

In the Philippine capital, Hegseth “will advance security objectives with Philippine leaders and meet with US and Philippine forces,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement last ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed the United States' "ironclad commitment" to the Mutual Defense Treaty with the ...

Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building out military-purposed ...

Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro on Monday laid out Manila’s plans to deter Chinese efforts in the ...

The Marines are set to deploy a new rotational force to the Philippines at a major upcoming exercise. The 3rd Marine Littoral ...

Gilberto Teodoro denounced Beijing’s South China Sea claims urging stronger defence and alliances amid rising tensions.

The G7 ministers' rebuke of China's maritime actions was expressed in a March 14 joint declaration on maritime security that ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine defense chief on Monday called China's expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country would ...

China claims virtually the entire South China Sea, a major security and global trade route. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also lay overlapping claims to the resource-rich ...