NAPLES, Italy — NATO allies are strengthening their anti-submarine capabilities this week in the Baltic Sea, a region whose infrastructure network makes it susceptible to Russian mischief threatening ...

The alliance deployed forces to the region in January following a series of concerning incidents. Some of the malign activity has been linked to Russia and described as a hybrid campaign. NATO's ...

Beyond the fire and fury of the battlefields of Ukraine, gray zone warfare has turned the Baltic’s cold depths into an embattled sea. Since 2022, six suspected sabotages and 11 confirmed damages to ...

On Christmas Day 2024, Finnish special forces stormed the oil tanker Eagle S in the icy waters 50 miles off Finland's coast. The dramatic helicopter boarding, the first such seizure by Finland since ...

Western economies have become dependent on data and energy flow along the seafloor; Russia and China are weaponizing that ...

Joanne Stocker is a verification producer for CBS News Confirmed. She was previously chief editor of Kurdistan 24 English and managing editor at The Defense Post. She has combined open-source ...

Unlike previous years, this time NATO allies in Europe were prepared. On January 14, 2025, NATO launched Baltic Sentry, a multi-pronged mission to deter further damage with a joint task force of NATO ...