More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A delegation of Russian diplomats arrived last Tuesday in a caravan of white SUVs for a summit in Damascus and an unenviable assignment: lay the groundwork for Russia to keep its military bases in ...

For now, Russia, which had numerous bases and outposts across Syria, has drawn its military personnel and assets back from all but two installations in Tartus and Latakia. They are of deep ...

Israel is building military bases in the demilitarised buffer zone with Syria, according to satellite images seen by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. The images were taken between December ...

or military training instructors. Brig. Gen. Laura L. Lenderman, then commander of the joint base, served as the reviewing official. Lenderman, now a lieutenant general, is deputy commander of ...

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DEFCON, short for Defense Readiness Condition or simply Defense Condition, is the U.S. military’s ranking system for defense readiness for a potential nuclear attack. The system of ranking the ...