As tensions with Russia rise, 13 Norwegian soldiers have been sent to the far North to test the cold’s effects on their minds, bodies and equipment.

This is Arctic Forge, a multinational war game testing ... having spent much of his two-decade Army career as a special forces officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Brawley, the "rules ...

Its troops have been permanently based there since 2013, and its Arctic Brigade, formed in 2015, consists of motorised infantry brigades, Special Forces units and naval infantry. Russia also has a ...

BANAK AIR STATION, Norway — Service members from the Norwegian Armed Forces and US Air Force 352d Special Operations ... air mobility operations in the Arctic region. "The high north is unique ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...

In normal conditions, Canadian Air Force helicopter pilot Jonathan Vokey uses the treeline to gauge his altitude. But in the ...

a property suspected of containing Argentine special forces that sat in a compromising high ground position. Captain Rod Boswell of the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre and 18 of ...

MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. The creation of the Russian Arctic force grouping will be completed by 2018, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday. "By 2018 we intend to complete the ...

ROGACHYOVO (Novaya Zemlya), October 25. /TASS/. Infrastructure preparedness on Arctic islands has allowed Russian army units to assume combat duty, Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov said on ...