US-Philippine military exercises are longstanding, "purely defensive" and intended to maintain force readiness and preserve regional security, a the US State Department said.

These US systems are designed to be conventionally armed and are not designed to employ nuclear payloads,' a US State Department spokesperson says ...

The Philippines made no commitment to China to ship out the US Typhon missile system deployed to the country since April last year, the National Security Council (NSC) said on Friday. Assistant ...