The US has released a trove of documents seized when special forces stormed Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011 that include references to unfulfilled plots such as an attack on the US embassy in Moscow.

Britain and the US are jointly hacking Yahoo and Google data around the world, according to the latest leak from former security worker Edward Snowden.

The US National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post has reported.

President Barack Obama has blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the US military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions.

A year after the US Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al Qaida that carried out the September 11 attacks is essentially gone, but its affiliates remain a threat to America, anti-terror officials say.

SINCE the terror attacks of September 11, top-secret intelligence gathering by the US government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no one really knows what it costs and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported yesterday.

The White House said it was “deeply disappointed” at a UK Appeal Court ruling that revealed intelligence relating to torture allegations in the case of a former Guantanamo detainee.