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 ...

NATO scrambled two F-35s this week in the Arctic region, where jets intercepted Russian bombers and fighter planes, military ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is good view over the flat and open landscape that stretches across the Arctic ...

Mystery explosions have rocked the Russian Arctic, a few miles from a naval ... there are also several sites containing mobile anti-aircraft missiles and electronic warfare antennas.

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 ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise missiles near NATO members Norway, Finland and Sweden. That drill followed ...

Nations like the U.S., Russia and China are jockeying for influence, not only to access the Arctic’s vast natural resources but also to secure strategic military and trading advantages.