More casualties would come in operations on surrounding islands. The intense bloodshed on Tarawa, documented by war correspondents who were close to the fighting, sparked outcry in the US.

They have predicted that Tarawa atoll, the nation’s capital, will become uninhabitable within a generation. But many I-Kiribati refuse to think of their homeland as a “disappearing island ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. (AP Photo ...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's international radio service, ABC Radio Australia is now available on 92.3FM for residents across the Tarawa atoll in the central Pacific island nation.

Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago, was part of a force that tried to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...

Since Kiribati is part of Micronesia, it should come as no surprise that a major activity for visitors is snorkeling and diving. There are magnificent lagoo ...

Tarawa Class: Builder ... The eighth LHD, Makin Island (LHD 8), was delivered to the Navy in April 2009, and commissioned in October 2009. LHD 8 is the first U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship ...

FILE - A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) ...