Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden is a terrorist extremist who planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and is intent on driving Western influence from the Muslim world.
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1957. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, bin Laden joined the Afghan resistance.After the Soviet withdrawal, bin Laden formed the al-Qaeda network which carried out global strikes against Western interests, culminating in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that bin Laden had been killed in a terrorist compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Punjab CTD arrests Osama bin Laden’s close aide

LAHORE: The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested Amin-ul-Haq, a close associate of Al-Qaeda founder… Read More

Indian officer suspended for hanging picture of Osama bin Laden at office

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“We’re not your ‘hired gun’ anymore,” PM Imran tells US leadership

Prime Minister Imran while giving an interview to The Washington Post candidly commented, "I would never want… Read More

Trump criticises war hero for not capturing bin Laden sooner

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Pakistan was unaware of bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad: Obama

NEW DELHI: Almost six years after infamous US raid on Pakistan soil that killed al-Qaeda… Read More

Iran denounces CIA ‘fake news’ in Bin Laden files

TEHRAN: Iran has accused the CIA of spreading "fake news" about the Islamic republic with… Read More

CIA releases 470,000 files seized during Bin Laden compound raid

WASHINGTON: The CIA on Wednesday released a vast archive of intimate Al-Qaeda documents, including Osama Bin-Laden's handwritten… Read More

‘Osama Bin Laden and Zawahiri were 80’s heroes’

General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Friday said that the founder of Al-Qaeda  Osama Bin Laden… Read More

Indian citizen jailed for changing his name to Osama Bin Laden

NEW DELHI: An Indian citizen’s attempt to impersonate Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden landed… Read More

Bin Laden documents: worry over IS tactics, ‘aging’ Al-Qaeda

WASHINGTON: Months before his death, Osama Bin  Laden fretted about the Islamic State group's impatient,… Read More

Dr Shakil Afridi will neither be released nor handed to US, says law minister

ISLAMABAD: A jailed Pakistani doctor, Dr Shakil Afridi, believed to have helped the CIA hunt… Read More

Resolution filed in NA to make ‘Abbottabad Commission Report’ public

ISLAMABAD: Jamshed Dasti, an independent Member National Assembly (MNA) from southern Punjab, submitted a resolution… Read More

US drops claims, former SEAL on Bin Laden raid to forfeit book proceeds

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: The Pentagon has dropped a claim against a former Navy SEAL who… Read More

Graveyard or playground? Row erupts over Osama compound in Abbottabad

PESHAWAR: A dispute has broken out over the future of the site where Osama Bin… Read More

Osama compound to be converted into a graveyard

ABBOTTABAD: The compound where Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces, will… Read More

US adds Al-Qaeda South Asia affiliate to ‘terror’ list

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: The United States added Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, a regional branch… Read More

Abbotabad administration recovers Osama compound from cantonment board

ABBOTABAD: On an ARY News report, the district administration of Abbotabad has moved into action… Read More

Pakistan raps Trump over vow to free doctor who helped track bin Laden

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan angrily criticized Donald Trump, frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, for saying he… Read More

Five years ago today: Osama Bin Laden gunned down in Abbottabad

ABBOTTABAD: Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Abbottabad operation in which American commandos shot… Read More

Global Al-Qaeda franchises: History of world’s terror groups

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