Lack of surveillance (recon assets) to patrol infrastructure and fishing grounds. The Coast Guard needs more sea eyes.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The administrator of the Panama Canal said Friday that the vital waterway will remain in Panamanian hands and open to commerce from all countries, rejecting claims by ...

On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision. By Lisa Friedman President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday refused to rule out ...

In 1903, the US received authority to build a canal and control of the Panama Canal Zone “in perpetuity,” in exchange for annual payments to Panama. More than a strategic trade route was at stake in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama under the Carter administration is both strategically sound and historically resonant.

He recently challenged the government of Panama over its sovereign control of the Panama Canal, potentially reopening one of the most divisive foreign policy issues of the 20th century.

President-elect Donald Trump recently threatened to retake control of the Panama Canal, amplifying unfounded claims that Chinese military personnel control the canal and that Panama is ...

“China is extremely influential in the canal zone and Panama in general,” Chang said, and called for a reexamination of the China-Panama relationship.