Osama bin Laden

U.S. 09/17/21, 15:54

As the United States commemorates another anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL believed to have shot Osama bin Laden, is making news again when a tweet of his went viral due to an event that occurred in 2020 for which Delta Air banned him ...

Middle East 09/13/21, 19:59

A militant Sunni Islamist chief, who many thought was dead, made a video appearance on Sept. 11. Ayman al-Zawahri's video message on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 caught some observers off-guard. The al-Qaeda leader, who was previously rumored to have died several month ago, praised the terrorist group's January attacks on Russian ...

Middle East 08/30/21, 15:44

A video posted Monday, Aug. 30 on Twitter by Newlines Magazine founder and editor-in-chief Hassan I. Hassan is causing much concern worldwide. In the video, Amin ul-Haq, once a close associate of Osama Bin Laden, receives a "warm" welcome upon his return to his hometown in Afghanistan after 20 years in ...

U.S. 07/31/21, 04:42

Ibrahim bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's brother, has put his long-time Bel Air property on the market for $28 million. In 1983, Ibrahim paid $1,653,000 for the Mediterranean villa-style estate, according to property records—roughly $5.5 million after 38 years of devaluation. The concrete and pink-painted mansion, built in 1931, and located in ...

2022 Campaign 01/01/21, 01:20

A former Reagan era adviser revealed the current president would go down in history for publicly unmasking media bias and its influence on politics. Political analyst, Jeffrey Lord believes President Donald Trump's most significant national achievements were not necessarily in domestic or foreign policy but rather his crusade to expose media ...

U.S. 09/06/20, 04:43

Osama bin Laden's niece, Noor bin Ladin warned that if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is elected, another terrorist attack similar to 9/11 may be on the way. Bin Ladin, 33, told the New York Post in her first interview that President Donald Trump is the only president who can prevent ...

D.C. 02/14/20, 07:08

Military responses in the Middle East will take longer to authorize after tighter rules were imposed to force the president to seek prior approval from Congress. The Senate passed the new Iran War Powers Resolution that effectively prevents President Donald Trump from making an executive decision about military strikes against Iran ...

D.C. 02/10/20, 05:38

A controversial Iranian general would still be alive today if a Democrat was in the Oval Office. Three Democratic candidates for president confirmed they would not order a deadly military strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani if they could decide whether to save lives by killing the top terrorist leader on Jan. ...

Trending 01/10/20, 06:13

The nation would have regretted not launching a deadly airstrike against a controversial Iranian general, a congressman has warned. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) believes President Donald Trump acted with integrity and saved countless lives through ordering a military attack that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3. "This is a president who ...

Asia & Pacific 09/14/19, 12:15

The White House on Saturday issued a statement that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. "The loss of Hamza bin Ladin not only deprives al-Qaida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, ...

New York 06/07/19, 15:59

A New York City man accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the "Looney Tunes Terrorist" if his glasses fell off and he couldn't ...

U.S. 05/23/19, 14:45

journalist Justin Pritchard reported on the American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh's journey to the Taliban front lines. We are reprinting the story now to mark Lindh's release after nearly two decades in prison.__John Walker Lindh's journey to the Taliban front lines began five years ago in the wealthy suburbs ...

U.S. 05/22/19, 11:04

John Walker Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free after nearly two decades in prison. But conditions imposed recently on Lindh's release, slated for Thursday, make clear ...

Asia & Pacific 04/30/19, 09:08

They make threats from their hideaway lairs and celebrate mass attacks. The ending isn't scripted for these hunted men with horrifying death tolls on their hands. When the reclusive Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared in a video Monday, he was the latest in a series of most-wanted figures ...

Asia & Pacific 03/01/19, 18:50

Saudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network.There was no immediate explanation why the royal decree stripping his citizenship, signed in November, was only becoming public now. ...

World 02/22/19, 10:02

Pakistan's army has stripped a former spy chief of his pension and other benefits over a book he co-authored with his former Indian counterpart.Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, an army spokesman, said Friday that a military court has found retired Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani guilty of violating the military's code of ...

Asia & Pacific 02/04/19, 01:24

U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in a hurry to find a peace deal for Afghanistan that would allow America to bring home its troops after 17 years of war, but the road ahead is littered with obstacles. After years of U.S. insisting on talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, ...

Asia & Pacific 01/30/19, 01:25

It only took a few days for al-Qaida-linked militants to seize more than two dozen towns and villages in northern Syria from rival insurgents earlier this month, expanding and cementing their control over an area the size of neighboring Lebanon.The advance by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or the Levant Liberation Committee, ...

Entertainment 11/28/18, 08:02

John O. Brennan, the former CIA director and longtime intelligence official, is working on a memoir. Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers, confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that it had a deal with Brennan. According to Celadon, the book will cover his more than 30 years in government ...

Africa 10/30/18, 05:03

The normal-looking campaign rally in Somalia's capital this month was anything but. Dozens of people in T-shirts bearing the smiling candidate's image and "Security and Justice" were praising the former No. 2 leader of Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group, the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, who until recently was the target of a ...