Sasha Ingber

Sasha Ingber

Sasha Ingber

National Security Correspondent

Sasha Ingber is Scripps News' national security correspondent. She focuses on the U.S. intelligence community and its adversaries, telling stories that illuminate events and places shrouded in secrecy. She has covered the war in Ukraine, the collapse of Afghanistan, damaging intelligence breaches, Anomalous Health Incidents at the FBI and CIA, the U.S. Capitol riot and pipe bomb investigation, and extremism and surveillance at George Floyd protests.

Before joining Scripps News, she was a reporter at NPR, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. A Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, she has reported from Iraq, Cuba, and Bangladesh. Her work has also appeared in such places as The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic, and ESPN. Her reporting has also led to guest appearances with other media outlets, including PBS NewsHour and the History Channel, as well as event moderation at the Kennedy Center and National Press Club. Before starting a career in journalism, she worked at the U.S. State Department, monitoring and debunking Russian disinformation.

Recent Work
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons

The TikTok Inc. building

House to vote on TikTok legislation this week

Smoke rises to the sky following an explosion in the Gaza Strip

In building Gaza's new port, US forces face varied threats

Army veteran Kristofer Goldsmith.

Veteran says extremists are taking advantage of Israel-Hamas war

NSA headquarters

Congress postpones spy tool reforms amid stark disagreements

A California warehouse with connections to China.

'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies

US, EU officials warn of increased terror risk associated with Hamas

A man passes by a fence with photographs of hostages, mostly Israeli civilians.

Understanding how the Hamas hostage negotiations worked

U.S. soldiers

New report finds US service members' data for sale online

People evacuated from Gaza disembark a plane

Lawsuits accuse US government of failing Palestinian Americans in Gaza

An image shared with Scripps News by the Israel Security Agency

What we know about a secret Israeli unit targeting Hamas terrorists

Noam Peri is pictured.

Daughter of man held captive by Hamas urges international support

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip

What would it take to win a counterinsurgency war in Gaza?

Couple marries near Gaza

A wedding in wartime

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Looking back on Gen. Mark Milley's Joint Chiefs tenure

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference

US approaching decision to supply Ukraine with ATACMS missiles

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company.

Head of Wagner Group was aboard jet that crashed, Russian agency says

French and other nationals gather at the airport in Niger

Niger's ambassador to the US sees Wagner hand after coup

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, home to the FBI headquarters.

FBI worried about AI and disinformation ahead of the 2024 election

A Former Russian intelligence officer

Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy describes secretive unit targeting Americans

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Wagner boss said to be in Russia, as Moscow undermines Prigozhin

Artem Uss

The Russian businessman in Italy who escaped US extradition

Donald Trump signing documents

Trump faces 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act

Roger Carstens, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs

Top hostage negotiator on Americans wrongfully held by Moscow

Artist depiction shows Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in court.

Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira to remain jailed until trial

Russian President Vladimir Putin

The CIA starts a new in-your-face recruiting method for Russians

A Ukrainian soldier in a trench

Retired NATO commander says the West is afraid of a Ukrainian victory

an insignia with acronym RWDS on a vest

Texas gunman wore 'Right Wing Death Squad' patch

Dmytro Zolotukhin

Army of Russian energy giant Gazprom said to be fighting in Ukraine

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage

Putin may want to swap an 'illegal' Russian spy for Evan Gershkovich