Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Torpedoes and bombs hit the Yamato one after another. The largest battleship in the world sank in a sea area about 500 kilometers north of Okinawa Island. Yasaku had taken part in the Yamato’s ...

Several large American MQ-4C Triton unmanned reconnaissance drones will be deployed indefinitely at the U.S. Air Force base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Azernews reports. This move is ...

Then there’s Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, French Guiana in South America and the islands of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean. Those French overseas territories are part of the EU, but the ...

The island of Saint Helena is situated 4,000 miles away in the South Atlantic and – along with Ascencion Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha – forms an overseas territory of the UK. Saint ...

LONG ISLAND, New York (WCBS) — Fewer than 80 triple organ transplants have been attempted in the United States, and for the first time, the rare procedure was successfully performed on Long Island.

(CNN) — In the Pacific island nation of Samoa, residents have been grappling with rolling blackouts for weeks that have plunged villages into darkness and caused major disruptions to businesses ...

(CNN) — The Pentagon has sent at least six B-2 bombers – 30% of the US Air Force’s stealth bomber fleet – to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, in what analysts have called a message ...

Walk up a path from the Okinawa Peace Park on the island’s southern shore and stand next to the cave entrance where the commander of the Japanese garrison on Okinawa, Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima ...

In Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa, American troops landed on its main island on April 1, 1945 toward the end of World War Two. Eighty years since, people in Yomitan Village where US ...

The 44-island Sakishima chain, part of Okinawa prefecture, stretches southwest of Okinawa island to within 75 miles of Taiwan. Japan in 2023 opened a missile base on Ishigaki island in the chain ...