Seven of the eight Arctic Council members (all but Russia) promptly decided to boycott meetings over the war and only met again in 2023 to oversee the handover of the chairmanship ...

Canadian and U.S. fighter jets were scrambled to monitor Russian aircraft near North America during Arctic drills ...

NATO scrambled two F-35s this week in the Arctic region, where jets intercepted Russian bombers and fighter planes flying near allied airspace, military officials said. NATO’s quick reaction ...

Russia has invested heavily in its Arctic military footprint in recent years. Its northernmost Nagurskoye air base on Siberia’s northern coast hosts nuclear-capable strategic bombers ...

Languages: English. The Arctic, once a politically neutral area of the globe, is largely now seen as a geopolitical and military frontier. Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, international ...

The Arctic has become a critical geopolitical focal point in recent years, drawing the attention of Russia, China and the U.S., which has its northernmost military base in Greenland. Meanwhile ...

Denmark said on Monday it would spend 14.6 billion Danish kroner ($2.05 billion) boosting its military capabilities in the ...

The Russian Aerospace Forces in Plesetsk have launched a Soyuz-2.1B rocket with military payload. The launch took place in the morning of 5 February at the north Russian cosmodrome, the Russian Armed ...

For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is good view ...

A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were spotted in the Arctic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said ...