In this op-ed, Lt. Col. Jeffery M. Fritz proposes the US buy the Commander Islands from Russia in order to better monitor Chinese subs.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said the U.S. military also deployed a guided missile destroyer and a Coast Guard vessel to the western region of Alaska as Russia and China began the "Ocean-24 ...

(Brandon Vasquez/U.S. Army) The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers from Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia.

The aircraft were spotted just days after about 130 U.S. soldiers were temporarily deployed to a remote Alaska island with mobile rocket launchers amid a spike in Russian military activity off the ...

Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in the past week.

There are 55 miles between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska. But when it comes to islands, there are only 2.5 miles between Russia's Big Diomede and the U.S.'s Little Diomede.

The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and ...

A US Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it detected four Russian military aircraft flying near Alaska on Monday, less than two weeks after US Army soldiers were deployed to the area as ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter 'Alex Haley' detects and follow a Russian navy Vishnya-class naval vessel on August 5 south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The Coast Guard spotted four Chinese vessels ...