Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' ...

One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” President Donald Trump said of Greenland, asserting that the autonomous Danish territory and the Panama Canal were vital to security.

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its stake in two Panama Canal ports to U.S. and Swiss investors ... a semiautonomous Chinese territory, Trump administration ...

The canal was built and funded by the US in the early 20th century after Panama gained independence from Colombia with Washington's support. It retained control of the canal zone until it handed ...

Rubio said that the US would be obligated to protect the Panama Canal if it came under attack, adding that he found it “absurd that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are ...

Donald Trump has declared that the US will "take back ... were also aimed to uphold Panama’s demand of restoring sovereignty over its territory, guarantee the canal’s neutrality, and cement ...

The U.S. controlled the Canal and the area around it until it signed treaties in 1977 granting Panama control and sovereignty over the canal zone and guaranteeing its permanent neutrality.

It was built in the early 1900s. The US maintained control over the canal zone until 1977, when treaties gradually ceded the land back to Panama. After a period of joint control, Panama took sole ...