America’s purchase of Alaska in 1867 was a bizarre land deal between two countries. It was either hated or ridiculed across most of the world. But now, Russian nationalists want their long-lost icebox ...

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits a joint U.S.-Soviet World War II memorial during a trip to Alaska in 2017. (Bob Hallinen/Zuma Press) ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The meeting between President Trump ...

President Donald Trump appeared to mix up Russia with Alaska ahead of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a White House press conference about crime in Washington, DC and his plans ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's August summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is looming large as the White House presses its latest effort to secure a peace deal ending ...

U.S. fighter jets scrambled to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday.It's the third time in about a month and the ...