The United States has killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, US President Barack Obama said in a dramatic televised address on Sunday.
From the detainees’ details it is clear that the West wildly overstated the reach and capability of Osama bin Laden’s terror group.
Osama bin Laden and his deputy spent a frantic three months traveling non-stop across Afghanistan after 9/11, according to leaked US military files.
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/ 19 October 2010
Osama bin Laden is living in relative comfort in the far north-west of Pakistan, according to a Nato official.
A middle-aged American suspected of being on a mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden has been arrested in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 September 2009
Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.
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/ 22 September 2009
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist group, al-Shabaab, has released a video documentary in which it proclaims its allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
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/ 14 September 2009
Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government’s close ties with Israel in an audio tape posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2009
Eight years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda remains a tenacious enemy, but Americans are growing weary of the fight against terror.
The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, and the agency is hoping to close in on him as the country’s military cracks down on the tribal area.
Osama bin Laden called for a long war against ”infidels” and warned Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would turn them into apostates.
President Barack Obama launched a landmark Middle East trip on Wednesday, but earned a swift rebuke from Osama bin Laden in a stinging new audiotape.
Foreign jihadists have flocked to Somalia in recent months, joining forces with local fighter to turn the country into an al-Qaeda haven.
The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base near the Algerian capital, a security official said on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2009
Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 warned Palestinians in Gaza against accepting a truce with Israel in an audio message posted on extremist websites.
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/ 23 January 2009
Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closing of Guantánamo prison and named veteran trouble-shooters for the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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/ 15 January 2009
President-elect Barack Obama said on Wednesday that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden remain the "number one threat" to US security.
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/ 6 November 2008
Spain has rejected a request for asylum by one of the sons of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden because it does not believe he is being persecuted.
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/ 22 October 2008
Websites being used to disseminate propaganda by al-Qaeda appear to have come under systematic cyber-attack, forcing the closure of three.
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/ 8 September 2008
Missiles fired by United States drone aircraft killed at least three people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border.
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a new videotape posted on the internet on Friday.
George Clooney has embarked on what may be one of his most controversial projects: the story of Osama bin Laden’s driver.
The turbulent prospect of direct United States intervention against al-Qaedaand Taliban jihadi bases in Pakistani territory adjoining Afghanistan appears to have moved closer after last week’s visit to Washington by Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani. Far from reassuring his hosts that Islamabad is on top of the situation in the so-called tribal areas, […]
A jury convicted Osama bin Laden’s former driver of supporting terrorism on Wednesday in the first war-crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay.
Osama bin Laden’s former driver has pleaded not guilty in a case that could determine the future of scores of terrorism cases in the United States.
Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured this week when they seized a north-western town, a government official said.
Al-Qaeda has been essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and is on the defensive throughout most of the rest of the world, the CIA claimed on Friday. The upbeat assessment comes less than a year after United States intelligence reported that al-Qaeda had rebuilt its strength around the world and was well-placed to launch fresh attacks.
Osama bin Laden has plenty on his mind but he managed to pay close attention this month to the events surrounding Israel’s 60th anniversary and the parallel commemoration of the ”nakba” — the catastrophe — that the creation of the Jewish state in 1948 meant for the Palestinians.
There is ”no solution but war” to solve Somalia’s problems, and Somali Islamists must re-arm and fight, a long-time hard-line Islamist leader linked to al-Qaeda said on Monday. In a rare interview, Sheikh Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki urged the United Nations not to send soldiers to shore up an African Union peacekeeping force.
The United States agreed on Friday to help Saudi Arabia protect its oil industry from terrorist attack, while offering to back conservative Arab countries resisting Iranian influence spreading across the Middle East — but King Abdullah was not persuaded to boost Saudi oil production to ease the effect of the -a-barrel price on the US.
Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape marking Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations to continue the fight against the Jewish state and its allies and not give up an inch of Palestinian land. ”We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies,” the al-Qaeda leader said in the tape posted on an Islamist website on Friday.
Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday. More than eight hours after the Iraqi announcement, the United States military said it still had no confirmation that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian, had been seized.