Ahmad Mukhtar is a producer for CBS News based in Toronto, Canada. He covers politics, conflict and terrorism, with a focus on news from Canada and his home nation of Afghanistan, which he left following the Taliban's return to power in 2021. An image of ...

On the last day of August 2023, the Pentagon announced that the Army and Marine Corps units that had rushed to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul two years earlier would receive the nation’s highest unit award: the Presidential Unit Citation.

Volunteers and veterans participate in a care package event Monday, Dec. 29, 2025 at the American Legion Post 111 in Newton. The care packages will be going to the unit of the two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed in action in Syria. (Christopher Braunschweig)

Formed in total secrecy during the Cold War, a special US Army unit was designed for a mission no one expected to survive. Operating behind enemy lines in a Soviet invasion scenario, these soldiers would remain in occupied territory to sabotage railways,

“It was more comfortable than I could have imagined,” is how The Unit begins, with Dorrit, a single, impoverished 50-year-old woman picked up from her home in a metallic red SUV and transported to a luxury facility constructed by the government for ...

Through the NFL's first 102 seasons, several units were so memorable that a nickname was bestowed upon them. Some nicknames captured their effectiveness as a unit, while others perfectly depicted their utter dominance. A few of them were just fun and ...

The first new VVER-TOI power unit at the Kursk II nuclear power plant in Russia has been connected to the grid and reached a capacity of 240 MW on 31 December.  ;

President Donald Trump said early Saturday that U.S. forces had captured Venezuela's de facto leader, Nicolás Maduro, and flown him and his wife, Cilia Flores, out of the country in a military operation that included attacks in several parts of the South American country.