Gray did have to go pretty far back for a model. He pointed to Denmark’s 17th century purchase of St. Croix from France. The territory was purchased by the U.S. as part of a 1916 treaty and is now ...

Downing Street would not be drawn into saying whether the 99-year lease on the Diego Garcia military base could be shortened ...

NUUK, Greenland — The people of Greenland, the Inuit, the people of the farthest north, are famously quiet. At church, you ...

the Marshall Islands, and Palau in the western Pacific islands. Such a deal would give the U.S. exclusive military access and the right to determine which other nations can base their troops to ...

Donald Trump's proposal to buy Greenland, as ludicrous as it sounds, isn't actually impossible. The president-elect has at ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using ...

If the U.S. were to actually acquire Greenland, which has fiercely resisted the idea, we would want to ensure it does not ...

where its northernmost military base remains. The U.S. military also gained control over the Marshall Islands from Japan in ...

Kim Jong Un’s claim the missile will “contain any rivals in the Pacific” has stoked fears over the U.S. military’s ability to ...

The BBC investigates possible scenarios for the huge Arctic territory's future as the US president-elect talks about taking ...