In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly transformed civilian space stations into armed military platforms, culminating in the only known cannon ever fired in space. Decades later, declassified ...

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

News that Nicolas Maduro was in U.S. custody within hours and without any American casualties did not simply change the ...

Aldrich Ames, who has died aged 84, had a 32-year career with the CIA and was a double agent for the last nine of them; he ...

President Trump has coined a new term to describe his approach to foreign policy that recalls the 200-year-old doctrine.

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

Ilia Malinin, known as the "Quad God," landed the elusive quad axel jump a few years ago, sparking questions about the future ...

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...