The US has taken control of a stateless oil tanker seized earlier in the month by Libyan rebels, the Pentagon says.

It’s set in modern Pennsylvania, but there’s an Old Testament quality to the imagery of fire in Out of the Furnace (15A).

Kenya’s military spokesman has confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which killed more than 60 people last month.

Five American service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.

The political brouhaha that continues to dog Kathryn Bigelow’s dramatisation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden might have cost her an Oscar nomination.

Top US politicians have accused the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film 'Zero Dark Thirty' by allegedly telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.

President Barack Obama assumed responsibility over the deadly terror attack in Libya last month that killed four Americans just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to shoulder the blame for any mistakes the administration made.

Al-Qaida's second-in-command has been killed by a drone strike in Pakistan's north west tribal region, a US official said today.

Al-Qaida’s second in command in Pakistan was in a house hit by a US drone strike, according to intelligence officials, but they do not know whether he was killed.

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as General Aladeen and Megan Fox stars as herself in The Dictator.

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress, including a dig at Romney’s treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

In 1962, in response to escalating hostilities between North and South Vietnam, allies of Russia and America respectively, President John F Kennedy authorised the creation of the Navy SEALs.

At a time when many think the US government is inept, Special Forces are getting the job done around the world, writes Daniel Klaidman

As US military investigators try to piece together what led a 38-year-old staff sergeant to commit Sunday morning’s killing spree, psychological experts agree a psychotic break or underlying mental illness may have been behind the massacre.

Moving from house to house, a US Army sergeant opened fire on Afghan villagers as they slept, killing 16 people – mostly women and children – in an attack that reignited fury at the US presence following a wave of deadly protests over Americans burning Korans.

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armoured Nato bus today in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, US and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.

US President Barack Obama has declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active affiliate and vowed a vigorous US campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.

An American-born cleric killed in Yemen played a “significant operational role” in plotting and inspiring attacks on the US, officials said, as they disclosed detailed intelligence to justify the killing of a US citizen.

Al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, US and Pakistani officials said today.

Al-Qaida’s second in command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, a senior Obama administration official said today.

The US Navy SEALs whose helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan had rushed to the mountainous area to help a US Army Ranger unit that was under fire from insurgents, officials say.

It has emerged that some of the US special forces who were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan yesterday were a part of the Navy Seals unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

A military helicopter has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 US special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country’s president said today.

A mobile phone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier recovered in the US raid that killed both men contained contacts for a militant group that is a long-time asset of Pakistan's intelligence agency, it was reported today.

PAKISTAN’S intelligence service has arrested the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe Osama bin Laden’s compound before the US raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, as well as a “handful” of other Pakistanis.

The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who did not immediately realise they had killed the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said today.

Twitter was there when Osama bin Laden was killed, and is credited with aiding the Arab Spring Risings, but it is often banal and goes over the legal edge when it comes to celebrities, writes Michael Clifford

AL-QAIDA was considering targeting oil tankers in terror attacks to damage Western economies, US officials say.

Al-Qaida was considering targeting oil tankers in terror attacks to damage Western economies, US officials say.

Shortly before his death, Osama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements and predicting that revolutions would spread across the region.

Pakistani troops and a Nato helicopter exchanged fire today, further straining relations with the West following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Pornography was among the items seized when US Navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, US officials said today.

US officials will mine the secrets of Osama bin Laden by poring over an intelligence haul seized at the time of his death that a top White House aide describes as a wealth of intelligence about al-Qaida.

America has said Osama bin Laden was actively running al-Qaida up until he was killed.

AL-QAIDA has confirmed the death of its leader Osama bin Laden and swore revenge for his killing by elite US commandos.

HOLED up in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was scheming how to hit the United States hard again, according to newly uncovered documents that show al-Qaida plans for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

US President Barack Obama has met the assault forces who carried out the strike on Osama bin Laden and has awarded them a presidential citation.

Al-Qaida confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden today and vowed revenge, saying Americans’ “happiness will turn to sadness” in the first statement by the terror network since its leader was killed in a US commando raid against his Pakistani hideout.

US President Barack Obama is set to meet the Navy Seals who joined the daring raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound.

ONLY one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired a shot, a senior defence official said yesterday, acknowledging this account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic and prolonged firefight.

THE US has no “definitive evidence” that Pakistan knew Osama bin Laden was living in the compound where a Navy SEALs assault team killed him, but the country must now show convincingly its commitment to defeating the al- Qaida terrorist network, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.

US President Barack Obama will meet some of those who were involved in the military operation against Osama bin Laden when he visits Fort Campbell, Kentucky, tomorrow, a White House official said.

Only one of the five people killed in the raid in which Osama bin Laden died was armed and fired any shots, a senior US defence official said today, acknowledging that the new account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic, intense and prolonged firefight.