Top Norwegian military officials have apologised after a female soldier from Oslo was forced to bathe naked in a freezing lake with 30 other male personnel. Read the full story

Finland’s defence forces have admitted having a secret list of all the places around the country where there could still be munitions left over from the Second World War. Read the full story

A series of military exercises under the name North Viking 2011 began in Iceland today and will continue until next Friday. Read the full story

Three German naval ships with some 700 crew members have arrived in Reykjavik on a ceremonial visit; including the Berlin, which is Germany’s biggest naval vessel. Read the full story

The Seafarers’ Association of Iceland has released a press statement complaining that Icelandic waters will be next-to defenceless and un-patrolled this summer if both of the country’s biggest coastguard ships travel abroad. Read the full story

Politicians and military officials voiced their concerns about Finland’s role in Afghanistan this week as the body of a soldier killed in a car bomb attack arrived back on home soil. Read the full story

An interpreter who risks his life alongside Danish soldiers in Afghanistan has been refused a residency permit despite coming to the country almost a decade ago. Read the full story

The Danish military has dropped a case against a soldier who wrote a book which they tried to stop being published. Danish commando Thomas Rathsack was contacted by the Judge Advocate’s office this week and told that the army would no longer be pressing charges. Read the full story

Norway has told a German shipbuilding firm that it will no longer be able to test Israel-bound submarines in its waters. Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) has been asked to find somewhere else to carry out its checks as Norway continues its ban on security exports to Israel. Read the full story

A recovery team in Greenland is attempting to evacuate and repatriate three servicemen who are thought to have been entombed in a glacier since their plane crashed in WWII. The Coastguard has commissioned a private squad in an attempt to find and finally remove the J2F-4 Grumman Duck biplane from the ice. Read the full story