Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the ...

The island’s residents have voted in favor of a party that seeks gradual independence from Denmark. But Greenland has ...

Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the ...

The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas. The Norsemen established two settlements that had a peak population of ...

Almost a century later, in 1917, Washington acquired the Virgin Islands from Denmark and recognised Denmark's sovereignty over Greenland. During World War II, when Denmark was occupied by Germany ...

Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman offered $100 million − about $1.3 billion today − in gold to Denmark for Greenland after the war but they declined ...

President Trump repeated vows to secure U.S. control of Greenland and the Panama Canal ... It was not until World War II that the U.S. established a presence on the island, when then-Danish ...

That has made it crucial to the defense of North America since World War II, when the U.S. occupied Greenland to ensure that it didn’t fall into the hands of Nazi Germany and to protect crucial ...