Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

Carmel-by-the-Sea will get numbered street addresses this year. For decades, the town has relied on finding houses by their ...

“The Caribbean comprises over 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays. It is divided into three large island groups: The ...

Nokaen was a tropical storm in the Philippine Sea Saturday evening Philippine Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in ...

U.S. forces boarded an oil tanker on Friday in a pre-dawn action, the U.S. Southern Command announced. "In a pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in coordination ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing ...

Jost Van Dyke Island in the British Virgin Islands - Daniel McDonald/Shutterstock There's nothing like holidaying in the British Virgin Islands. The weather is balmy, the sand is fluffy, and palm ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is ...

James indictment: A grand jury declined to reindict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people ...

Trump said he's protecting American lives while others question the legality. Since September, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have ordered controversial military strikes ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a ...

The U.S. Senate and House Armed Services committees will open bipartisan inquiries into U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea, with a focus on an alleged follow-on ...