The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had a place on the Russian map. Russian fur hunters and traders in Siberia had heard for centuries from the Yupik, the coastal ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --A shocking new video shows a Russian fighter flying dangerously close to a U.S. Air Force jet, patrolling off the coast of Alaska, amid reports that more Russian military planes ...

A RESIDENT of a remote island that is closer to Russia than America will be the last person to vote in the elections ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in ...

TASS/. Thursday March 30 marks the 150 anniversary of the signing of the Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America (the Alaska Purchase) by his Majesty the Emperor ...

The U.S. military has moved more than 100 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes ...

Two Chinese vessels and two Russian patrol vessels were seen by the U.S. Coast Guard near the maritime boundary between the U ...

The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it.

The U.S. military is slamming Russia for an “unsafe” encounter in the skies off the coast of Alaska after footage released Monday shows a Kremlin fighter jet cutting off an Air Force F-16. The ...