From Siobhan Gorman and Danny Yadron, Wall Street Journal:  Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions against the computer networks running energy companies

From White House:  While the Arctic region has experienced warming and cooling cycles over millennia, the current warming trend is unlike anything previously recorded.

From NATO:  A global challenge requires a global approach. And the melting of the Arctic ice is certainly an issue whose effects will be felt around the world.

From Xenia Dormandy, New York Times:  What are the security challenges NATO members face today and in the coming decades, and do we have sufficient commonalities to harness the interests, will and capacity to address them through NATO?

From Georgy Bovt, Moscow Times:  Whenever high-level talks are held between Russia and China, it seems the media always says  Moscow's foreign policy is focusing on the East.

From Leon Aron, Foreign Affairs:  The first imperative of Russia's foreign policy consensus is maintaining the country's position as a nuclear superpower.

From Einar Benediktsson and Thomas R. Pickering, New York Times:  According to a 2008 estimate by the U.S. Geological Survey, 13 percent of all the unexploited oil, 30 percent of natural gas and 20 percent of the natural gas liquid resources are located under the seabed of the Arctic.

From Nicole Perloroth, David E. Sanger, and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times:  American intelligence officials believe that the greater danger to the nation’s infrastructure may not even be China, but Iran