What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Greenland's parliament, the Inatsisartut, debated legislation on Tuesday aimed at prohibiting political parties from ...

Greenland, a vast island covered mostly in ice and located in the Arctic, might seem like a remote, uninhabited land to many.

formerly known as Thule Air Base, is one of the loneliest U.S. military assignments in the world. Built on Arctic permafrost, the base hosts 200 troops in Greenland's far north. Its closest ...

In a third, more aggressive scenario, the U.S. would unilaterally expand its military presence in Greenland, deploying additional troops to the Thule Air Base, upgrade its missile defense systems ...

Two years later, Omaha’s Kiewit Corporation won a contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to build Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland for the Strategic Air Command, StratCom’s Cold War ...

Even though the sale did not go through, the United States ended up with the military bases it wanted anyway. The U.S. Air Force currently maintains two bases in Greenland, Thule and Sondestrom.

Since the 1940s, the Pentagon has valued Greenland ... the military had more than 10,000 troops in its territory, which hosts Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base.

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and ...