With countries scrambling to protect their interests and frozen conflicts again running hot, for some, the web of overlapping conflagrations carries echoes of the period before World War I when the pacts linking major opposing blocs dragged Europe into a continental war.

Starting Jan. 1, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service will cut off alcohol sales between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at all stores.

High-seas faceoffs between Chinese and Philippine ships have intensified this year in the contested waters, fueling fears of a larger conflict that could involve the US.

Protesters seeking to expel a controversial tiltrotor aircraft from Okinawa plan to rally outside Japanese government offices less than a week after an Air Force Osprey crashed in southwestern Japan.

The Mason Live Fire Range Complex is still under construction, but bullets are already blasting down the state-of-the-art gun range at Guam’s Camp Blaz.

Ospreys will continue to fly in Japan, the Pentagon said, as search-and-rescue efforts entered a third day for an Air Force tiltrotor that crashed near an island in Kagoshima prefecture.

Celebrities and photo-worthy surprises are planned for this year’s event.

The Chinese defense ministry’s top spokesperson has said that the U.S. should stop interfering in both Taiwan and the South China Sea.

A Navy veteran and his wife run the Santa Delivery charity in Japan to help those in need.

The sister of North Korea’s leader has rejected a United States request for negotiations and likened the idea to a ploy by Washington to infringe on her country’s power to govern itself.

The tiltrotor aircraft, assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, was on a routine training mission off Yakushima, an island in Kagoshima prefecture, when it went down, according to Air Force Special Operations Command. 

China presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower.

New Delhi is probing any role of Indian organized criminal groups in an alleged attempt to assassinate a U.S.-based Sikh separatist leader, as the South Asian nation tries to protect its relationship with the U.S. after being prompted by Washington.

The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest rates.

India’s space agency is exploring joint collaborations with Boeing Co., Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC and Voyager Space Holdings Inc., as an official visit by the head of NASA highlights the growing level of cooperation between the US and India in outer space.

An Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City, U.S. prosecutors said as they announced charges against a man they said was part of the thwarted murder conspiracy.

An unconscious person recovered in waters where a Yokota-based Osprey went down has been confirmed dead, according to the Japanese coast guard.

As much as 2 million gallons of fuel may have leaked and spilled into the ground under the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility since it was built during World War II, an amount far exceeding past estimates.

A series of prison sketches by a Japanese physician convicted, but later acquitted, of crimes against Americans during World War II were handed to the man’s family on Friday, thanks in part to two Yokosuka Naval Base employees.