Southeast Asia is part of the U.S.-China competition, with both powers vying for political, security and economic influence.

SYDNEY >> A key U.S. warship arrived in Australia today ahead of joint war games and the first summit between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump, which is expected to be ...

Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive ...

The biannual Talisman Sabre exercises in Australia concluded on August 4 having begun on July 13. With this year’s iteration, what began in 2005 as joint bilateral war games between the US and ...

Former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz has pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder. The case may raise previously untested laws both in Australia and globally.

After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to ...

A prosecutor has told a court an Australian soldier charged with a war crime in Afghanistan won't stand trial until at least ...

Schulz’s prosecution is historic: he is the first Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime. This development comes ...