Osama Bin Laden

France tightens steps to prevent Osama bin Laden's son from returning

France's interior minister said Tuesday he has taken additional steps against any effort by one of the sons of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to return to France. Omar bin Laden had been living in France's Normandy region but left the country in October 2023 after French authorities withdrew his residency papers and ordered him out, the Interior Ministry said. At the time, authorities also barred him from returning to France for two years, the ministry added. In a post Tuesday on the social media platform X, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he imposed an additional ban to ensure that Omar bin Laden will not be able to return to France for any reason whatsoever. French daily Le Parisien reported that Omar bin Laden now lives in Qatar. It said he had previously been living since 2016 in the Orne region of Normandy with his British wife and had been working as an artist. The newspaper said that last week he lost a legal battle to overturn the ban on him returning to ...

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These drones can operate at heights up to 50,000 feet for over 27 hours with a payload capacity of 1,746 kg

US warns of possible retaliation after killing of Al-Qaeda's al-Zawahiri

In a Worldwide Caution Update, the department said it believed "there is a higher potential for anti-American violence given the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri on July 31, 2022"

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Who was Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri and why did the US kill him?

A US drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the 9/11 attacks on the United States and helped al-Qaida survive and spread in the years after

Prince Charles' charity fund accepted Bin Laden family donation: Report

According to The Sunday Times', Prince Charles met with the Al Qaeda founder's half-brother Bakr in London and allegedly agreed to accept GBP 1 million

How 9/11 attacks turned America into a debased, half-crazed, fading power

America launched a bad-faith global crusade to instill democracy in the Muslim world and ended up with its own democracy in tatters.

On 20th anniversary of 9/11, Biden commemorates victims, calls for unity

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 attacks, US President Joe Biden commemorated the lives of 2,977 people who lost their lives on the day twenty years ago.

On 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, America is an unreliable superpower

The US was still riding high in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War in 2000. Today, it is one major power among many.

From Fatwa to fabulism

Book review of LANGUAGES OF TRUTH: Essays 2003-2020

Elements inside Pakistan army had links to Al-Qaeda: Barack Obama

In his latest book, America's first Black president described the various options of killing Bin Laden once it became increasingly clear that the elusive Al Qaeda chief was living in Pakistan

US did not share Osama location with Pak due to lack of trust: Ex-CIA chief

The US did not inform Pakistan about Osama bin Laden's location due to lack of trust and past experiences of terrorists being tipped off after data was shared with Islamabad, ex-CIA chief Panetta said

Pakistani dissidents slam PM Khan for calling Osama bin Laden 'martyr'

A group of Pakistani dissidents have expressed dismay over Prime Minister Imran Khan calling slain al-Qaeda chief and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a "martyr," saying this could be out of a "sinister reason" of putting the West, especially the US on notice. Under the banner of South Asians Against Terrorism & For Human Rights (SAATH) Forum, the group that includes Pakistan's former envoy to the US Hussain Haqqani, condemned Khan for making such a statement in Parliament. What makes this doubly disgusting is that Imran Khan made this claim on the floor of Pakistan's National Assembly. For, another Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusaf Raza Gillani, had in selfsame, National Assembly on May 9, 2011, denounced bin Laden as a terrorist and had welcomed his elimination, it said in a statement. Speaking in Parliament during the budget session on June 25, Khan called bin Laden a "shaheed" (martyr) and said that Islamabad faced "embarrassment" by taking part in America's war on ...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan calls 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a martyr

"I don't think there's a country which supported the war on terror and had to face embarrassment for it. Pakistan was also openly blamed for US' failure in Afghanistan," Khan said

Doctor who helped CIA track Laden launches hunger strike against Pak govt

The 2011 killing of Bin Laden caused massive embarrassment for Pakistan and particularly its powerful military

Pak trained Taliban, Laden was our hero: Musharraf's 2015 video goes viral

Musharraf is facing treason charges in Pakistan for suspending the Constitution in 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014.

Trump spins yarn around 9/11 and bin Laden; lies about Iraq war too

A look at some of the president's claims at the briefing, where he announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: How a preacher became the 'caliph' of terror

Ever elusive, ISIS chief Baghdadi, who was 48 at the time of his death, oversaw the murder of thousands of civilians in the name of religion

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza was killed in counterterrorism operation: Trump

Hamza's last known public statement was released by al Qaeda's media arm in 2018

Pakistan military accuses US of cheating over Osama raid in Abbottabad

Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said the US refused to take Pakistan into confidence at the time of operation