Hundreds of U.S. soldiers and Marines recently wrapped up training in Malaysia, an island nation that steers a neutral course between U.S. regional interests and Beijing’s maritime claims in the South China Sea.

Two people, including a U.S. airman, died and a third person was injured in a fiery car crash over the weekend near Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan.

The U.S. Air Force has pulled a pair of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotors from drills involving U.S. Marines and Japanese troops in southern Japan later this month.

The American and Japanese governments agreed to withhold from local authorities the details of a contaminated water spill last year at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Ricky Rupp, commander of U.S. Forces Japan, blasted Chinese, Russian and North Korean aggression during a change-of-command ceremony for the 374th Airlift Wing based at Yokota Air Base, while stressing the wing’s vital role and the importance of the U.S.-Japan partnership.

CV-22 Osprey aircraft resumed flights from this airlift hub in western Tokyo on Tuesday, 216 days after a crash off Japan’s southern coast killed eight airmen.

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters and Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors are scheduled to fly with aircraft of 21 other nations in Australia’s largest-ever modern airpower exercise this month.

The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine is keeping its place on U.S. military bases, despite a nationwide round-up of obsolete machines.

The Marine Corps’ new amphibious combat vehicle went to work in waters off Okinawa doing for the first time what it was designed to do: moving troops from ship to shore.

Australia is streamlining a program that allows American troops and soldiers from other nations to transfer to its army, navy or air force, according to Australian Defence Force officials.