CIA 'live tweets' Osama bin Laden raid to mark five-year anniversary
Social media exercise giving blow-by-blow account of operation that led to death of al-Qaida chief criticised as ‘distasteful’The Central Intelligence Agency’s decision to live-tweet the military...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden's son urges Syrian jihadis to unite 'to free Palestine'
Hamza bin Laden’s message comes days after al-Qaida leader called for unity – despite continued rejection of Islamic StateThe son of Osama bin Laden has urged jihadis in Syria to unite, claiming that...
View ArticleIslamist terror has evolved toward lone actors – and it's brutally effective
Isis has deepened Osama bin Laden’s idea of using violence to terrorize enemies and is better positioned to launch a far-reaching campaign of ‘leaderless jihad’The two attacks that shook the US and...
View ArticleOsama Bin Laden's son vows to avenge al-Qaida leader's death
Hamza bin Laden releases message in which he promises to continue the militant group’s fight against the US in a speech entitled ‘We Are All Osama’ The son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has...
View ArticlePlayground or graveyard? Fight breaks out over future of Osama bin Laden's...
Military and local government at odds over what to do with the plot in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed by Navy SealsA dispute has broken out over the future of the site where Osama Bin Laden was...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden's son Hamza urges overthrow of Saudi rulers
In undated message he calls on young Saudis to fight US influence and join al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in YemenA son of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida’s slain founder, has urged Saudis to overthrow...
View Article#SudanUnderSanctions: young people describe life on the blacklist
Twitter users share experiences of living in a country crippled by 19 years under America’s anti-terrorism embargoIt was Osama bin Laden who first earned Sudan a place on the US blacklist for state...
View ArticleNavy Seal memoirist must pay US government $6.6m for breaking confidentiality
Matt Bissonnette, whose book No Easy Day included firsthand account of Osama bin Laden’s killing, ruled to have violated non-disclosure agreementsThe former Navy Seal who wrote a book about his role in...
View ArticleThe mind of Islamic State: more coherent and consistent than Nazism | Robert...
Political ideologies take decades to form. Islamic State’s is the latest iteration of one that has been developing for 50 yearsIn June 2014 the armed forces of the group that at the time called itself...
View ArticleArmy of One review – Nicolas Cage hunts Osama bin Laden in year's worst comedy
A shockingly ill-advised caper from Borat director Larry Charles takes the left field true story of Gary Faulkner and mines it for zero laughsIn Army of One, a man who experiences hallucinations due to...
View ArticlePrivate jet in crash that killed Bin Laden relatives came in too fast, report...
Accident investigators say plane landed too far down runway and caught fire, killing Bin Laden’s stepmother, stepsister and another relative, as well as pilotA private jet that crashed, killing three...
View ArticleObama administration places sanctions on bin Laden's son, citing terror risk
State department adds Hamza bin Laden, who was named an al-Qaida member in 2014, to global terror list, saying he is ‘actively engaged in terrorism’The Obama administration imposed sanctions on...
View ArticlePakistan refuses to grant new ID cards to Bin Laden doctor's family
Lawyer says officials refused to renew ID cards for wife and children of Shakil Afridi, who helped US track and kill al-Qaida chiefPakistan has refused to grant identity cards to the family of Shakil...
View ArticleIsis bomber Jamal al-Harith: from Manchester to Iraq via Guantánamo
British-born jihadi who blew himself up for Islamic State this week was a convert detained for two years at Camp X-RayWhen US special forces found Jamal al-Harith in a jail in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in...
View ArticleWho are the new jihadis? | Olivier Roy | The long read
Biographies of ‘homegrown’ European terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violenceThere is something new about the jihadi...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden’s family on the run: ‘I never stopped praying our lives might...
In the days after 9/11, the world’s most wanted man retreated to Afghanistan. What happened to his wives and children?On 10 September 2001, Osama bin Laden’s wives were ordered to pack one suitcase...
View ArticleHow Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised by his links to Libya
The 22-year-old was influenced in part by the people who formed the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a little-known al-Qaida affiliate outlawed in 2004“Whoever played with his mind, as he saw the kids...
View ArticleHamza bin Laden – a potent weapon in the rivalry between al-Qaida and Isis
Son of Osama bin Laden called for strikes against ‘Jews’ and ‘Crusaders’ 10 days before Manchester suicide bombingHis name alone is enough to guarantee headlines and the attention of the world’s...
View ArticleAdnan Khashoggi obituary
Saudi businessman, arms dealer and fixer known for his extravagant lifestyleThe life of Adnan Khashoggi, who has died aged 81, did not imitate art but prompted it. The sybaritic Saudi middleman...
View ArticleIsis captures territory around former Bin Laden stronghold in Afghanistan
Capture of giant Tora Bora complex would mark major victory for group as it clashes with TalibanIslamic State fighters have captured some territory around Tora Bora, the former stronghold of Osama bin...
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