US destroyer USS Benfold forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet in the Indo-Pacific region transits the Philippine Sea BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese forces followed and warned away a U.S. warship which ...

The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement Wednesday that the destroyer USS Benfold asserted its navigational rights in the South China Sea and called China’s earlier claim about the voyage "false." ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The destroyer USS Benfold and its complement of nearly 300 passengers returned to Naval Base San Diego Friday after a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East.

The US Navy (USN) has denied Chinese reports claiming that one of Washington's destroyers was “expelled” out of “China's territorial waters” near the Paracel Islands on 12 July. “Without authorisation ...