North Korea’s newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon’s missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea makes an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting…
FAIRBANKS — Tuesday’s successful missile test by North Korea made Alaska the only U.S. state within theoretical range of that nation’s fast-growing missile program.
FAIRBANKS — The United States’ chairmanship of the Arctic Council came to an end Thursday when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson handed the gavel to Finland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Timo Soini in a ceremony at the Carlson Center.
FAIRBANKS — The Week of the Arctic gets underway today as more than 1,000 people from around the world arrive in Fairbanks for a meeting that caps off the United States' chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon every used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said.
CALGARY, Alberta — Crime is rising, home prices are falling and food banks are overwhelmed in Calgary as job losses spread. And the worst isn't yet over in the heart of Canada's oil patch.
WASHINGTON — The Paris terrorist attacks seem likely to compel President Barack Obama to consider military escalation against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But that probably will not mean dramatic moves like launching a U.S. or international ground offensive or accelerating aerial bom…
FAIRBANKS—The day after more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in terrorist attacks in Paris, Alaska's U.S. senators voiced support for France and reiterated the need for continued vigilance against terrorism.
PARIS — French President François Hollande decried the massacres across Paris as an "act of war" by the Islamic State, amplifying signals Saturday of a major response from France and its allies after coordinated gunfire and bombings that killed at least 127 people.
PARIS —France declared a state of emergency and secured its borders Friday evening after attackers unleashed a coordinated wave of explosions, gunfire and hostage-taking in Paris that left well over 100 people dead and generated scenes of horror and carnage.
