The United States has reportedly sailed two destroyers close to the Nansha archipelago in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety despite Washington’s objection. The two guided-missile destroyers traveled within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef in the archipelago, which is also known as Spratly Islands, ...
So-called SDF fighters backed up by artillery fire from a US-led coalition pressed their assault Monday to retake a last morsel of territory from ISIL, a monitoring group said. More than four years after the Takfiri extremists declared a “caliphate” across large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq, several offensives ...