US and Philippines expected to increase size, frequency and sophistication of exercises in the disputed region.

Tension is running high in the Korean peninsula after a recent attack at the border.

Israeli military source said strikes targeted militants who fired rockets into Israel on Thursday.

North’s shells targeted a military loudspeaker that has been broadcasting anti-Pyongyang messages.

“Joint Sea 2015 II” exercises will run through Aug. 28 in the Sea of Japan and off the coast of Vladivostok.

“Each exercise is seen as provocative by the other side and feeding a dynamic of distrust and unpredictability.”

At least 110 people dead and 300 injured in a string of regime air raids on Douma near Damascus, activists say.

Officials have pushed back publication of the Chilcot Inquiry for six years.

“Turkey wanted to move against the PKK, but it needed a hook.”