Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christina Hillsberg joined the CIA as an eager 21-year-old in 2006. She spent more than a decade there: traveling undercover to ...

The former slave known for leading more than 300 people—including her elderly parents—to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad was also a Union spy. Born in Maryland around 1820, Tubman ...

Spying has long been viewed as a man’s game, but throughout history, women have played pivotal roles in intelligence operations that significantly influenced the outcomes of wars. These women worked ...

Was Emilia Clarke and Hayley Lu Richardson's show Ponies inspired by real Cold War events? We unpack the true history behind ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. But this slender head-count certainly doesn’t do justice to the ...