This year’s Balikatan exercises focus on territorial defense in two of the most sensitive fault lines in the China-U.S. rivalry: the disputed South China Sea and the Bashi Channel. The exercises ...

Now known as "Balikatan," a Filipino word meaning "shoulder to shoulder," it is the biggest of the several military exercises, in the field or classroom, held annually by the two countries in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Commandos from the elite Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) will join the Balikatan military exercises with the US, which begin tomorrow.

A closer look at what we know about this year's Balikatan exercises and what they say about the state of the alliance.

The two-week Balikatan operation will also see the militaries execute a drill to blow up a mock target warship in the South China Sea - a move that could incur China's wrath. The exercises ...

The year 2024 is one for the books in terms of the Philippines' push to improve its defense capabilities, protect territorial ...

A lawmaker on Thursday urged the government to consider Surigao del Norte province as the site for a new naval facility under ...

Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center training in Alaska Exercise Cobra Gold in Thailand Exercises Balikatan and ...

The annual exercises, called Balikatan--Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder--will run up to April 8 with nearly 9,000 troops, navy, marines, air force and army troops, including 5,100 American ...

In response to Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro's claims that the deployment of the US-made Typhon missile system ...