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

A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee by defence minister Gitte Lillelund-Bech, the senior army official said he viewed the “Abu Ghraib-like” images on a CD in 2005. Read the full story

An Icelandic cabinet meeting at the official presidential mansion of Bessastadir has ended and the reshuffle of the government is now official. One departing minister made his last official act to approve a Dutch application to bring old Russian fighter jets to Iceland for international war games. Read the full story

A game of cops and robbers became a little too authentic for two Danish teenagers this week, after armed police turned their fantasy into reality. Officers drew their weapons and demanded the boys to stand down after hearing reports of ‘armed black-clad men’ near a bank in Vemmelev. Read the full story

Nine Danish soldiers have tried to take their own lives in the last 12 months since returning home from Afghanistan. Read the full story

Norway has joined the United States in criticizing the Canadian decision to withdraw its armed forces from Afghanistan next year. Read the full story

Moldova and Burkina Faso have become the latest countries to submit their instruments of ratification for the Norwegian-led Convention on Cluster Munitions during a United Nations meeting last week. Read the full story

The Christmas period has seen troops from Norway involved in several battles across northern Afghanistan, with the Maimana Norwegian field hospital admitting injured Afghan fighters as the insurgency continues. The Norway Post reports that despite the skirmishes, no Norwegian troops have been seriously injured. Read the full story

The Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has claimed that unnamed “experts” have confirmed that the US is set to ask the nation to deploy more troops to Afghanistan over the coming months. Read the full story

Fighting broke out again between a group of Finnish and Swedish soldiers and insurgents in Sar-i-Pol in Afghanistan on Monday around 16.00 (GMT). There were about 20 soldiers of a mixed Finnish and Swedish patrol in the conflict. Shooting went on for about 30 minutes, according to Finnish news source Helsingin Sanomat. Read the full story