The remote island, which is closer to Russia (50 miles) than to Alaska (116 miles), is just south of the Arctic Circle. This ...

a chain of islands beside Alaska. Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Army for comment on the veracity of these claims. Tensions ...

Although the United States had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the military had set up few defenses. The military base in the territory's most vulnerable spot, the Aleutian Islands ...