This wasn't a war with battles and soldiers like in the movies; it was about fish! The heart of the matter was simple: both Britain and Iceland wanted to catch cod, a type of fish very popular for its ...

Iceland still allows some species to be hunted despite an international ban. In Iceland, a worldwide hotspot for whale watching, gentle giants seem to rule the sea. But all the while some species of ...

Iceland doesn’t have a standing army and their skirmishes are usually focused on fishery barriers. And good for them. War, what is it good for, am I right? But despite the apparent absence of a ...

Sweeping through a subarctic fog one morning last week, the Icelandic patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of ...

Heres What You Need to Know: Iceland was an overlooked but highly strategic location during the Cold War. Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the ...

This wasn't a war with battles and soldiers like in the movies; it was about fish! The Cod Wars of Britain and Iceland [DailyExpress] Once upon a time, not in a land of fantasy but in the real world, ...