All Stories: Osama Bin Laden

WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden outlined in letters and other documents how at least $29 million of his funds and possessions should be apportioned after his death, requesting that most of it be used to continue global jihad.

WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda's leaders were increasingly worried about spies in their midst, drones in the air and secret tracking devices reporting their movements as the U.S.-led war against them ground on, documents seized in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout and reviewed by Reuters reveal.

ISLAMABAD: Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that the defence ministers of Pakistan are the most ineffective in the cabinet of the country.

A private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for Britain's Hampshire police service said, and Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday warned Pakistan it was only hurting itself after Save the Children was expelled for "working against the country," with Islamabad threatening to throw out more foreign aid groups.

WASHINGTON: The United States plotted to find Osama bin Laden by concealing tracking devices in medical supplies, possibly through Red Cross hospitals, a report said Thursday, citing documents leaked by former security contractor Edward Snowden.

WASHINGTON: Low-hanging clouds over the Pakistani mountains might protect you from a prying US drone, but what if a spy has injected a microscopic bug in your wife's clothes?

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Foreign Office has strongly denied the claims of American journalist Seymour Hersh, who claimed that Islamabad had prior knowledge of the US raid in Abbottabad in which Osama bin Laden was killed.

ISLAMABAD: Two former senior Pakistani military officials told AFP Tuesday that a defector from Pakistani intelligence assisted the US in its hunt for Osama Bin Laden but denied the two countries had officially worked together.

WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday flatly rejected claims that Pakistan was told in advance about a 2011 special operations raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

KARACHI: US Journalist Seymour Hersh has said that the Obama administartion kept telling lies about the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound on May 2nd and Inter Services Intelligence was well aware of the whole episode, ARY News reports.

By Raza Haidery It has been four years since US Navy SEALs commandos flew from Afghanistan to Abbottabad and killed Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden at his compound, not far from the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA). However, the report of the Government of Pakistan's Commission set up to probe this incident remains classified to this date. However, a version of it was leaked by Al Jazeera in July 2013.

ROME: Italian police said Friday they had dismantled a network of Islamist radicals that included two former bodyguards of Osama bin Laden and the suspected authors of one of Pakistan's deadliest terror attacks.

PESHAWAR: Unknown attackers on Tuesday shot dead Dr Shakil Afridi’s former counsel named Samiullah Afridi, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's main intelligence agency probably knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding and hoped to use him as a bargaining chip before he was killed by US forces in 2011, a former spymaster has said.

LONDON: Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.

NEW YORK: U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to allow them to use documents seized during the 2011 military raid that killed Osama bin Laden at the January trial of suspected al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby.

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WASHINGTON: The US Navy Seal commando who fired the shots which killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is to reveal his identity in a Fox News television documentary next month, the network announced Wednesday.

NEW YORK: The United States on Monday said Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, should spend the rest of his life in prison following his conviction on terrorism-related charges.