The deployment to Shemya Island involved soldiers from Alaska, Washington and Hawaii with the 11th Airborne Division and the ...

Approximately 130 US soldiers are returning to their bases after being briefly deployed to Shemya Island, Alaska, due to increased Russian military activity. The deployment was a test of military ...

Despite an elevated response involving the deployment of troops and ships, the Pentagon says recent Russian incursions near ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — About 130 U.S. soldiers are returning to their bases after being deployed last week to a remote ...

Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks says it coincides with Russia and China conducting joint military exercises in the Sea of ...

10, boosting the number of Russian aircraft and ships that have come close to Alaska ... “We get that Russia, as our neighbor ...

“We’re going to see a widening of the playing field when it comes to influence operations, where it’s not just Russia, China and Iran but you also see smaller actors getting involved,” Lesser said.

China is Russia's largest trading partner, accounting for a third of Russia's foreign trade last year and supplying items such as vital industrial equipment and consumer goods that help Russia ...

China has called itself a "near-Arctic state ... The sea lies off the northwestern coast of Alaska and borders Russia's Chukchi Peninsula, the easternmost peninsula of Asia, to the south.

Washington and its allies in North America and Europe has conducted the largest exercise in the Arctic, to strengthen partnership amid growing challenges from Russia and its quasi-ally China.

The Alaska talks were unusually testy, marking the long-term downward trend in China-U.S. relations. At a meeting between Sullivan and Wang in Vienna in May 2023, the two countries launched a ...

Additionally, Sullivan is expected to raise US concerns regarding security in the Indo-Pacific region, China’s support for Russia’s defence industrial base as well as other international ...