This photo shows Discovery Great Reef, a Vietnam-built artificial feature in the South China Sea's contested Spratly Island archipelago. CSIS AMTI / Maxar This photo shows Discovery Great Reef, a ...

Hospital ships function as floating mobile medical facilities—supporting military missions, disaster relief and humanitarian operations.

Amid tensions with Iran, satellite imagery reveals the movement of U.S. warships, including the USS Nimitz, from Bahrain to ...

The comprehensive replenishment ship Fuxianhu affiliated with a detachment under the Nansha Garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) South Sea Fleet conducts multi-course training ...

Meanwhile, a set of photos released by the U.S. Navy shows the USS Benfold, the Dewey's sister ship, operating at an undisclosed location in the South China Sea on May 12. The Benfold is also ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...

SINGAPORE: China’s national flag was recently unfurled on a disputed reef in the South China Sea by its uniformed troops, an act broadcast by state media in what analysts believe to be a first ...

China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea, days after photos emerged of Chinese coast guard officers displaying a Chinese flag on the ...