"Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, the Japanese government and many other governments have stated clearly that they will not submit to this kind of blackmail," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Thursday.
Obama lied to Americans about the role of Pakistan special forces in the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden so he could take credit for the mission, an expose published has claimed.
Zawahiri served three years as a surgeon in the Egyptian Army, but his journey from an eye surgeon to becoming a most wanted global terrorist started after he met Laden in 1986, and joined Laden as his personal advisor and physician.
British humanitarian group Save the Children is being forced to shut its offices in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Tahir Ali tells us why
Former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha Pasha knew of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was in regular contact with the slain Al Qaeda chief, a media report said on Wednesday.
Blinken said the US will continue to act against those who threaten the country, its people and its allies.
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On the issue of whether chapters related to the first Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Keshav Baliram Hedgewar are being removed in Karnataka, he said India is a land of diversity.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the Central Investigation Agency track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, before the Al Qaeda leader was killed by United States special forces in May 2011, according to a media report today.
Nearly two years after the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the United Nations Security Council has deleted his name from its sanctions list. The powerful 15-member council will continue a freeze on bin Laden's assets to prevent them from being used by others for terror activities.
In a surprise testimony in a US court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law recounted meeting him in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan hours after the 9/11 attack which was claimed by the slain Al-Qaeda chief.
To bolster United States President Barack Obama's image ahead of Presidential election, the Obama Campaign has come up with a video featuring former President Bill Clinton praising Obama's handling of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound last year.
The United States on Saturday made public several videos seized during last week's raid, including one showing a bearded Osama bin Laden watching himself on television.
A close lieutenant of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to life in prison for multiple terrorism offences relating to his participation in the terror group's conspiracy to kill Americans overseas.
The US and Pakistan then struck a deal that the US would raid his compound but make it look as if Pakistan was unaware, Hersh said.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that ISI got hold of bin Laden in 2006 after paying bribes to some of the tribal leaders
Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his operations head were plotting to attack the United States on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, a media report has said.
'I believe that the grounds for my listing are based on heresy and disinformation by the Indian government'
According to one American analyst, the "house that was struck was owned by a top aide to Sirajuddin Haqqani," who is now the interior minister in the Taliban government in Kabul.
Did Pakistan reveal Osama bin Laden's position to the United States?
China opposed to "double standards" on counter-terrorism operations.
Al Qaeda's reclusive chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who played a central role in the 9/11 terror attacks and later created the group's regional affiliate in the Indian subcontinent, was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan's Kabul, in the biggest blow to the global terror network since killing of its founder Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan.
Here are the things we know about Osama and his terror group from the documents.
"It was just too much of a coincidence that that house, that unusual-looking house would be built in that community near the military academy, surrounded by retired military professionals, even though, we couldn't prove it," she said.
US President George W Bush said during his first visit to Afghanistan Wednesday that he was confident Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be brought to justice.
A day after former US Navy Seal Robert O'Neill came out in the open and revealed that he was the man who killed dreaded Al Qaeda chief and terror mastermind Osama bin Laden back in 2011, another Navy Seal has countered his claims.
India stressed that it is even more extraordinary for a country with a history of rigged elections to talk about political choices, that too in a democracy.
Pakistan has contacted governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen for the repatriation of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's three wives and their children, according to media reports.
United States President Barack Obama wanted to try Osama bin Laden in a federal court if the United States Navy SEALs had managed to capture the Al Qaeda chief from his hideout in Pakistan, a new book has claimed.
A Pakistani court will formally charge slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's widows and other family members for illegally entering and living in the country next week, a defence lawyer said on Monday.
Any curious mind, the court observed, can access and download such content from the internet, which, by itself, is not a crime.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said neither Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden nor Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar were present in Pakistan, a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton' assertion that the Laden is still in the country.
Asked by Wilson Center president Jane Harmon, a former nine-term US lawmaker, if he bore any responsibility for the negligence or the complicity when bin Laden moved to Abbottabad since "most people believe the residence was built and constructed" during his presidency, Musharraf said, "Whether one believes it or not, let me say with confidence, I did not know."
The Phenom 300 jet which was arriving from Italy crashed during an attempt to land at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, some 65 kilometres from London, killing all four persons on board including the pilot on Friday.
Pakistan will soon repatriate to Saudi Arabia two widows and several children of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who were captured after he was killed during a US military raid in the garrison town of Abbottabad.
Afridi had ran a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad city to help CIA agents track the former Al Qaeda chief, who was later killed by US Navy Seals in a controversial raid on May 2, 2011.
Osama bin Laden, towards the last phase of his life, had considered changing the name of Al Qaeda because of the bad image it developed over the years and with Muslims losing faith in the outfit, a top United States official has said.
A year after Osama bin Laden's death, Al Qaeda is determined to make stay alive, feels Hamid Mir, the last journalist to interview bin Laden.
'As the trial gets closer for Nikhil Gupta, they're going to want to make sure that he doesn't talk.' 'And they're going to put pressure on Mr Gupta to make some deal where the evidence doesn't come out.'
In one of the most detailed accounts of Osama bin Laden's life on the run, his youngest wife has told Pakistani investigators that the Al Qaeda leader lived in five safe houses as he travelled across Pakistan with his family for nine years following the 9/11 attacks.
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