Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the most strategically vital objectives for the United States forces in the Pacific during World War II were three islands ...

The end of July marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Tinian, completing the campaign to capture the Marianas Islands during Operation FORAGER. Seizure of the Marianas Islands enabled a ...

“You know that whole place used to be sugarcane,” says Quazi, my cab driver from Bangladesh, who has lived in Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands for over 35 years. He’s driving me to ...

Those who have heard of Tinian, a tiny island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, know it for pristine waters, hot peppers and archaeological relics. Not many know about the dark role the ...