The Marines were just over a hundred miles away from the southern tip of Taiwan when they seized the airstrip. They were operating in Northern Luzon and the Batanes Islands, Philippine territory north ...

During a recent visit to Honolulu, the Philippine coast guard’s top officer, Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan, told a roundtable of ...

American and Filipino marines recently concluded six weeks of coastal defense and aviation training in the Philippines, a 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing spokeswoman said Monday. The forces conducted the ...

Manila’s new offshore patrol vessels will serve as a sustained maritime presence in the South China Sea in protection of ...

This story has been corrected. A Marine Corps element visiting the Philippines from northern Australia will coordinate with a littoral regiment from Hawaii and command an Osprey squadron from ...

SUBIC BAY, Philippines — A unit of Hawaii Marines is in the Philippines fielding new weapons for the first time amid simmering tensions with China. The Kaneohe-based 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, ...

Members of the Hawaii-based 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment boarded a plane Saturday at Lalo Airport in the Philippines bound for the Batanes Islands in the Luzon Strait during Exercise Balikatan.