Many Afghan "Zero Unit" fighters who served under the CIA now feel they are being abandoned after seeking asylum in the U.S. They've faced despair and isolation - and some have taken their own lives.

WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried ...

The alleged shooter of two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was struggling with mental illness, his ability to support his family, and, according to an Afghan veteran who fought with him, ...

Mayor Karen Bass announced a focused effort to permanently house more veterans by the end of the year through her “House Our Vets” initiative. Her announcement came during a Getty House luncheon last ...

Before Rahmanullah Lakanwal settled in a quiet part of Washington state, he was part of a secret unit of Afghans who operated under CIA direction and hunted down Taliban commanders in highly dangerous ...

The brother of alleged DC gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a platoon leader in the same elite CIA-backed “Zero Unit” as his sibling, an ex-official in that squad said Thursday. Lakanwal, 29, and his ...

The suspected Afghan terrorist accused of gunning down National Guard troops just blocks from the White House struggled for years with the violence he saw as a part of a notorious CIA-backed ...

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 ...

The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By Jonathan Wolfe Elian Peltier Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fahim Abed The man ...

MILPITAS, Calif. — AI compute startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, founded by Intel veterans in 2023, today announced its composable, compute architecture. The Omni Processing Unit (OPU) unifies ...

A threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung’s Android image processing library to deploy a previously unknown spyware called 'LandFall' using malicious images sent over WhatsApp. The ...