WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), highlighted the need for President Trump’s planned “Golden Dome” missile defense system, and the ...

The Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait, are a unique geographic and political anomaly, lying just a few kilometers apart but divided by the international border between Russia and the ...

The uptick in Russian and Chinese activity near Alaska ... toward Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands sit astride the great circle routes, the shortest paths between Asia and North ...

The island, which sits halfway between mainland Alaska and Russia, would give the U.S. “an opportunity to gain time and distance on any force capability that’s looking to penetrate,” Paparo ...

The clip, titled "The Distance Between the US and Russia is Less Than You Think - Diomede Islands", reveals a surprising ... after the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the US in 1867.

going between the islands is forbidden. Traveling between what would later become Russia and Alaska didn’t always require the sea to freeze over, however. Around 25,000 years ago, Earth was ...

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia ... of the westernmost Aleutian Islands and his eventual death from scurvy in December 1741, it was an incredible success for Russia. The surviving crew fixed ...

A senior Department of Defense official said on Thursday that new “military cooperation” between Russia and China north of Alaska could ... on the Aleuthian islands, which span the Bering ...

His assignment was to help determine the boundary between Canada and the United States in order to clarify a treaty signed by Russia ... Alaska. The Russians had claimed the outer waters and ...

Discover the Diomede Islands, two small landmasses separating Russia and the U.S. in the Bering Strait. Learn 7 fascinating facts about their geography, time zone divide, Cold War history ...

The aircraft were spotted just days after about 130 U.S. soldiers were temporarily deployed to a remote Alaska island with mobile ... traveling close to Alaska as Russia and China conducted ...