a team of Finnish commandos dropped from two helicopters onto the deck of a ramshackle Russian oil tanker in the Baltic Sea and ordered the ship’s crew to sail into port. They were acting on ...

The British cargo ship Scot Carrier is seen at left after it collided with a Danish cargo ship Karin Hoej, in the Baltic Sea, between Ystad and Bornholm, early Monday morning.

NATO earlier this month announced it was launching a new monitoring mission in the Baltic Sea involving patrol ships and aircraft to deter any attempts to target undersea infrastructure in the region.