The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-carrying boat in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, marking the 38th vessel to be struck over the last five months in Latin American waters, and the second this ...

The US military has said two alleged drug traffickers were killed in a strike in the eastern Pacific. It is the second such strike since the US captured the then-Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. The ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the colossal Japanese battleship Yamato, a maritime behemoth, set sail for ...

PACIFIC, Wash. — Hundreds of neighbors in the King County city of Pacific were jolted out of bed early Tuesday as messages telling them to evacuate immediately blared through the area. “Water just ...

The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 15, at the direction ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...

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Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...