U.S. Air Force bombers have returned to their American base following a series of NATO exercises to test alliance readiness to the threat posed by Russia, as a Newsweek map shows the strategic ...

A Lapland village of just 150 citizens, Abisko, Sweden, might appear inconspicuous ... This village was located 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle. However, despite its remote location, Abisko ...

Sweden has issued calls for emergency assistance ... Dozens of forest fires have swept the Nordic region, including in parts of the Arctic circle, prompting Stockholm to seek intervention from ...

Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, international peace in the Arctic has been put on hold and now even countries outside of the Arctic Circle ... Finland and Sweden are likely to face ...

Iceland is a good bet, even though it lies just south of the Arctic Circle - those dotted lines on the map at 66.5 north indicate ... in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. Travel to these ...

A Swedish Gripen jet, left, and a Finnish F-18 Hornet take part in joint exercises over the Arctic Circle towns of Jokkmokk in Sweden and Rovaniemi ... Just by looking at the map, it is evident ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not so long ago—just a few days, perhaps—the icy water sluicing around my bare legs was snow on a rocky ...

The allied militaries did not specify where within the Arctic Circle the exercise took place ... support missions with NATO's newest member, Sweden. The B-52H aircraft also operated as the ...