Military

Some in Washington had resisted supplying the weapons system, known as “attack-ems,” out of fear that it would widen the war with Russia. President Joe Biden has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,…

The United States has poured more than a hundred billion dollars into Ukraine’s effort to repel Russia’s invasion, spending far more than any other nation. But as President Volodymyr Zelensky…

Copenhagen (17/08 – 78) Kidnapping, intimidation, and blackmail are just some of the means used to hit enlistment quotas in Tajikistan. When conscription season comes around in Tajikistan, military recruiters…

Eleven military vessels from China and Russia found operating near the Aleutian Islands last week were met by four U.S. Navy destroyers, Alaska’s two U.S. senators said.  The two Republican…

A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday. “Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted…

A young soldier in the US Army was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, four days after he reported her missing to police. Zarrius Hildebrand, 21, shot…

Michel Labine, a long-time resident of Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has often been the one fighting wildfires or helping evacuees in his hometown. But last weekend, the 63-year-old…

North Korea concluded that Travis King wants refuge there or in another country because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army,” state media said on Wednesday, Pyongyang’s…

A solution to potential shortages of two critical minerals used in making semiconductors and advanced military equipment — exports of which were restricted by China this month — may be…

The U.S. Senate has passed a national defense bill that includes a 5.2% pay raise for service members and eight military construction projects for Alaska worth $168 million. The largest…