Row comes amid fears amid fears that Pax Americana, which has maintained order in the Asia Pacific for 80 years, is now ...

The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon removed the battle's most iconic image from its website in amid row over ...

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked ... who defended the island through a series of caves, tunnels and pillboxes. Yet the photo from four days into the battle remains ...

Iwo Jima is Japanese for “sulfur island,” and the Japanese Imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other defenses. The charred island smoldered. Its bluffs and beaches became a ...

The U.S. Capitol, pictured before the Iwo Jima Memorial Park in Arlington, on Dec. 7. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post) Kudos to Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for pointing out in their ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the most important moments in U.S. Marine Corps and American history. Early in the campaign, the iconic flag-raising on February 23, 1945 marked the first time ...