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 ...

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 ...

The role of the unit movement officer (UMO) is challenging yet rewarding. I gained invaluable experience about deployment while serving as a battalion UMO in a brigade combat team during two ...

“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 ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), or “The Activity,” is one of America’s most secretive special operations units. Created in 1981 after the failed Operation ...

Few television shows pack the same live-grenade tension as an hour of The Unit (which presents its season finale tonight at 9 pm/ET). On the CBS series, Dennis Haysbert leads a small group of elite ...