The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After completion in 1914, the canal helped turn the United States into an economic juggernaut.

Panama has complained to the United Nations over President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal. | TAG24

In only his first hours back as president, Trump also moved to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord and World Health Organization (WHO), halted Cuba's delisting from a state ...

In his first address after being sworn in on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading statements that he made during his campaign.

Panama City, Panama (CNN) — The new Panamanian ambassador was given strict instructions as he prepared to meet then-President Donald Trump one day in 2019: Do not engage him in any substantive ...

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 ...

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

The new Panamanian ambassador was given strict instructions as he prepared to meet then-President Donald Trump one day in 2019: Do not engage him in any substantive discussion of critical issues.

Trump has suggested using military force to retake the Panama Canal, but such an action would involve complications.

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.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.