US intelligence officials have released more than 100 documents seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, including a loving letter to his wife and a job application for his al Qaida terrorist network.

The Jester is a pro-US hacker who has infiltrated the websites of jihadists and Wikileaks. Michael Moynihan was granted a rare interview

The Syrian regime is likely to have used chemical weapons on a “small scale”, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.

Syria’s civil war is closing in on president Bashar Assad’s seat of power in Damascus with clashes between government forces and rebels flaring around the city today, raising fears the capital will become the next major battlefield in the 20-month-old conflict.

US president Barack Obama said last night his re-election means Americans support his approach for avoiding a looming “fiscal cliff” that threatens a new recession — and that his approach means the country’s wealthiest people will have to pay more in taxes.

OSAMA bin Laden was still actively in control of al-Qaida at the time he was killed in his compound in Pakistan, US intelligence officials have said.

US Intelligence officials will be working through the night analysing material recovered from Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan.

Barack Obama said security lapses that led to a near-disaster in the Christmas Day attack on a US-bound airliner were not the fault of an individual or agency.

Pakistan’s Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three intelligence officials said today.

Iran has sent a formal protest note to Washington for “spying” on Iran’s nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

US intelligence agencies did not anticipate they would know in advance about any successful coup against Saddam Hussein, according to documents analysing the situation in Iraq over the past 25 years.

Mounting evidence gathered over several years has convinced US and foreign intelligence agencies that leading terror suspects have been living inside Iran.

FOUR months after the September 11 Commission urged drastic changes to protect the US from another terror attack, Congress yesterday neared final passage of far-reaching legislation overhauling the US intelligence network and instituting new border and aviation security safeguards.

US intelligence officials were yesterday accused of transferring detainees out of Iraq for interrogation, a move that experts say violates international law.

US president George Bush’s justification for the Iraq war suffered another major setback when a commission dismissed claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.

THE federal commission reviewing the September 11 attacks is examining whether the US failed to aggressively track one of the hijackers after obtaining his first name and phone number more than two years before the attacks.

North Korea has told the US administration that it has produced enough plutonium to make six nuclear bombs, it was reported today.

Saddam Hussein was inside the compound destroyed by cruise missiles in the attempted “decapitation strike”, US intelligence officials believe.

South Korea’s new prime minister said today his country would work with the United States to seek a peaceful resolution to the standoff with North Korea, amid a report that the North has restarted a nuclear reactor.

The US government has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the Tora Bora battle in eastern Afghanistan last year, and that he escaped because US ground troops were not sent in to get him, it was reported today.

Ukraine has admitted a rogue missile may have shot down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea.

US intelligence was warned in June about a "spectacular" attack on the country, according to a special edition of Time magazine published today.