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 ...

The Chinese military accused the United States of fresh provocations on Wednesday after the U.S. Navy publicized a warship's transit through the sensitive Taiwan Strait for the sixth time this year.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) conducted a previously unannounced Taiwan Strait transit earlier this month, Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, told reporters on Friday ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --USS Benfold conducted a freedom of operation exercise near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea to uphold the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea, the U.S. Navy announced ...

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Benfold conducts routine underway operations in the Philippines Sea on June 24, 2022. (MC2 Arthur Rosen/Navy via AP) The guided-missile destroyer Benfold ...

The U.S. Navy “seriously violated China’s sovereignty” on Wednesday by sending a destroyer past the Paracel Islands, a disputed chain in the South China Sea, according to the Chinese military command ...