The Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between August 7th of 1942 and February 9th of 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal of the Solomon Island chain, in the Pacific theater ...

Police in Solomon Islands say a large explosion that rocked the nation's capital overnight was caused by an old World War II ...

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HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Aug. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly 80 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific, Solomon Islands, site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, is still grappling with a ...

The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...

MUNDA, Solomon Islands — U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb squad members from other nations to confront and defeat World War II era ...

SYDNEY -- For four years, Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe has woken up every day in pain. On Mother's Day in 2021, an unexploded World War II artillery shell suddenly went off beneath a barbecue ...

The decision by the Solomon Islands to sign a security arrangement with China, coming on the eve of Australia’s most holy of all holy days, ANZAC Day, turned the federal election campaign into a ...

Four years after surviving a World War II bomb explosion at Lengakiki, Central Honiara, one of the victims is still waiting for government assistance or compensation. Maeverlyn Kabolo Pitanoe, one of ...

SYDNEY, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare did not attend a weekend dawn service for a key World War Two battle organised by the United States, with local media ...