Vice Adm. Peter Gautier, deputy commandant for Coast Guard operations, told House lawmakers that Russia and China have for ...

The remote island, which is closer to Russia (50 miles) than to Alaska (116 miles), is just south of the Arctic Circle. This "near Arctic" encounter came after Russia and China staged a joint ...

The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

Since 1867, when the United States purchased the colony of Alaska from Russia, fortune-seekers had migrated to the territory, mostly settling around its southern panhandle. Beginning with the 1896 ...

The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this ...

(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty ... The Americans said otherwise. A view of a boat passing near Taku Glacier with Devils Paw ...

Russia needs foreign troops if it expects to keep up its war effort in Ukraine through next year. It needs foreign equipment, ...

Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...

The Ukrainians' views toward Russia have sharply deteriorated since the start of its full-scale invasion in 2022 – by October, 93% of respondents held a negative view of Russia, with only 3% viewing ...

A top Russian defense official has attended China’s premier military showcase in a show of unity between the countries as ...