As the US gateway to the Arctic, Alaska is emerging as a hub for new shipping routes, like the Northwest Passage. As the Arctic ice melts, more opportunities are arising for exploring natural wealth ...

There isn’t much in common on the face of it between the two big biographies out this week, Andrew Lownie’s Entitled, the ...

The Coast Guard has commissioned a converted oil drilling support ship as its third icebreaker in what some officials said is ...

On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Age, with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on ...

Ahead of his Friday summit with Trump in Alaska, Vladimir Putin’s invasion forces advanced another six miles or so in Ukraine ...

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Is the new South Korean president’s softer approach to the North wise in a challenging new security environment?

North Korea has conducted artillery firing drills to bolster its combat readiness posture, the North's state media reported ...

In debating rearmament, is Japan forgetting the lessons of the past, or simply reflecting current realities?

Russia controls nearly 114,500 square km , or 19%, of Ukraine, including Crimea, and a major chunk of territory in the east ...

A Chinese Navy ship and a China Coast Guard vessel collided near the disputed Scarborough Shoal while pursuing a Philippine ...

Government, which provides almost the entirety of primary and secondary education, is on a mission to reform the education ...