MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin pledged Thursday that Russia will expand its presence in the Arctic, adding that work is under way to restore a major Soviet-era military base there.

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia and China, that is precisely what looks to be happening.

In Exercise Arctic Edge 2025, U.S. forces train to defend North America in an increasingly complex Arctic security ...

A US Air Force WC-135R aircraft, occasionally called a "nuke sniffer", circled near Russia's northwestern Murmansk region ...

Since 2005, Russia has reopened tens of Arctic Soviet-era military bases, modernized its navy, and developed new hypersonic missiles designed to evade U.S. sensors and defenses. Four Arctic experts ...

The Russian Navy flag is raised on the Admiral Golovko. (Photo: kremlin.ru) Frigate Admiral Golovko is the most modern surface ship in the Russian Navy. It will serve in the Northern Fleet. The ...

The federal government has paid $8.6-million to acquire a privately owned aircraft hangar adjacent to a NORAD air base in the Arctic community of Inuvik, a strategic piece of continental air ...

On the Russian shores of this disputed maritime and land border with Canada, Scandinavia and the United States stand new or expanded and modernized Russian Arctic coastal military bases at ...