The nominee to lead U.S. Northern Command told a Senate panel he would support placing a base for the Coast Guard’s new icebreaker fleet in the Arctic. Fielding questions today from the Senate Armed ...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Wendler stands watch during the five-week Ice Exercise above the Arctic Circle in March 2016. Congress wants the Pentagon to consider building a maritime and air base in Alaska ...

Clouds roll over the Thule Tracking Station, known as callsign "POGO," operated by the 23rd Space Operations Squadron, Detachment 1, at Thule Air Base, now known as Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland, ...

COPENHAGEN - The United States military's northernmost base, Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, is a crucial cog in Washington's missile defences which US Vice President JD Vance will visit on Friday.

NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. It was a ...

The Arctic is growing in geostrategic importance and potentially becoming yet another zone for strategic competition, as this previously impenetrable territory becomes increasingly accessible to ...

Though the Russian military has little in common with liberal Western politicians or environmental groups like Greenpeace, it is taking ice melt in the Far North seriously. By Andrew E. Kramer FRANZ ...

An officer speaks on walkie-talkie as the Bastion anti-ship missile systems take positions on the Alexandra Land island near Nagurskoye, Russia, Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander ...