The publisher of an insider account of the US Navy SEAL raid that killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden said it would begin public sales next week despite a Pentagon warning of possible legal action against the author and others.

A firsthand account of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when the navy Seals first fired upon him.

A US Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden says the terror chief was apparently shot in the head as he looked out his bedroom door.

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

Imagine waking in your hotel room and throwing open the balcony door — to be greeted by 40 US Navy Seals doing press-ups on the beach.

A Nato helicopter crash-landed today in eastern Afghanistan, just days after the downing of a Chinook dispatched to bring in reinforcements for elite troops under attack.

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.

Pakistan has informed the US that it will grant access to Osama bin Laden’s wives, an American official has said.

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.

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.

US President Barack Obama was today set to visit Ground Zero in New York to pay tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, just days after the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Pirate hostages were feared at risk of a violent backlash from their captors today in the wake of the successful freeing of an American merchant captain.

A Taliban commander blamed for the deadliest attack on US troops since they entered Afghanistan in 2001 has been killed in a shoot-out with security forces in Pakistan, American and Pakistani officials said today.

A military court hearing ended for a Navy Seal lieutenant accused of abusing and posing in degrading photos with a handcuffed and hooded prisoner who died a short time later in Abu Ghraib prison.

US Navy SEALs are stepping up their investigation into recently-published photographs that show freshly-captured prisoners and grinning commandos sitting or lying on hooded and handcuffed detainees in Iraq.

The US military has launched a criminal investigation into photographs that appear to show US Navy SEAL commandos in Iraq sitting on hooded and handcuffed detainees, it emerged today.

A lovestruck fan who pursued singer Sheryl Crow for 15 months has been cleared of stalking her.

A relaxed Sheryl Crow testified against her alleged stalker, describing how he appeared outside her dressing room after a Manhattan concert.

Burt Reynolds’ ex-girlfriend has filed a palimony suit against the movie veteran just a day after he sued her for alleged extortion.

The CIA interrogated and roughed up Iraqi prisoners in a “romper room” where a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died at the Abu Ghraib prison, a Navy Seal claimed.