China has announced that it will launch live-fire naval drills in the strait which separates the mainland from the breakaway island of Taiwan.

A South Korean claims the North is ‘highly likely’ to test a missile head of a joint Washington-Seoul war game.

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have started joint naval drills in the Persian Gulf waters.

The US Navy is dismissing the commander of the fleet that has suffered four recent collisions in Asia, including two involving fatalities.

The Doha-Ankara maneuvers will reportedly be held in the framework of bilateral military cooperation against terrorism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new state policy for the country’s naval forces that points to the US as intent on dominating the world’s oceans and thus posing a threat to Russia.

Military aircraft and about a dozen warships, including one of Beijing’s most advanced destroyers, will join the drills in the Baltic Sea this week.

The navies of India, Japan and the US hold a joint drill off the southern Indian coast amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Chinese flotilla partaking in the drill, which began on Sunday, comprises two battle cruisers, a support vessel, and a helicopter.

The naval forces of Iran and China are to hold a joint military drill in the Strait of Hormuz to display their capabilities.