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The bodies of the relatives of Osama bin Laden were “incinerated” when the private jet they were flying in crash-landed at a car auction site, a coroner has said.

The sister and stepmother of Osama bin Laden are thought to be among those killed after a private jet crashed in the UK yesterday.

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Al Qaeda confirmed that Nasir al-Wahishi, its number two figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, has been killed in a US strike, making it the harshest blow to the global militant network since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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.

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.

A former top aide to Osama bin Laden has been given life in prison for conspiring in the deadly 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, with the judge rejecting his claims he is not violent.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen offshoot could bring down a transatlantic passenger plane at any time, a new book by a former CIA leader has warned.

Prosecutors presented al-Qaeda documents found in Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound at the trial of a man charged in a British terrorism plot.

A UK-based Pakistani terrorism suspect was among several young recruits under orders by al Qaida to infiltrate Western society and pull off the biggest operation since the September 11 2001 attacks, a prosecutor has said in opening statements.

An American man has told a US court that he was asked by Osama bin Laden in 1995 to kill Egypt’s president by ramming his plane with his own in mid-air.

Lawyers for victims of the September 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia “directly and knowingly” helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker and from three principals of the US government’s two primary probes of the attacks.

Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen tonight claimed it had directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris “as revenge for the honour” of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

A fighter of the Islamic State militant group has praised the attack on the magazine saying the raid was revenge for insults against Islam.

I unreservedly condemn acts of terrorism including those which took place in Pakistan and Australia recently. 

The director of the CIA has defended his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects with no security benefits to the US.

Senior US officials who authorised and carried out torture as part of former president George W Bush’s national security policy must be prosecuted, a top UN special investigator said.

The retired Navy SEAL who says he shot al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden in the forehead has publicly identified himself amid a debate among the special operations community about breaking silence about their secret missions.

An Irish-American from "the most Irish town in America" has been named as the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden.

A British man accused of plotting a terror attack may have targeted former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, jurors in the partly secret terror trial were told.

A New York judge has sentenced Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law to life in prison after he was convicted of terror offences.

The shirt a US Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is being displayed at the 9/11 museum in New York.

A surrogate mother who claimed she miscarried the grandchild of Osama bin Laden has been jailed for three years and four months after faking pregnancies to rake in £15,000 (€18,750) from desperate couples.

Shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat admits he was once in the thick of al Qaida’s plans, winning a hug from Osama bin Laden for his quest to blow up a US plane in mid-air.

A controversial Pakistani cleric who runs an Islamic seminary for girls in the capital, Islamabad, has named the school’s new library in honour of Osama bin Laden.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, the voice of fiery al-Qaeda propaganda videotapes after the 9/11 attacks, was yesterday convicted of conspiring to kill Americans for his role as the terror group’s spokesman.

A British man who admits his role in a plot to use explosives hidden in shoes to blow up planes in 2001 today testified by video at the US trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law.

A man prosecutors say is Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman will go on trial next week despite claims by his lawyers that the government may have charged the wrong person.

A US military chief ordered his subordinates to destroy any photographs of Osama bin Laden’s body or turn them over to the CIA, 11 days after the the al Qaida founder was killed in 2011, a newly-released email shows.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman saluted the September 11 terrorists and warned that more strikes by al Qaida were on the way in a speech a few months after the 2001 US terror attacks, prosecutors have said.

A US businessman says he told federal investigators the location of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan years before his killing and is seeking a US $25m reward.

US special forces captured a Libyan al-Qaeda leader linked to the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, seizing him outside his Tripoli home and whisking him out of the country.

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A Pakistani judicial official has overturned the 33-year jail sentence passed on Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped CIA agents hunting for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was killed in 2011.

The prison sentence of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been overturned and a retrial ordered.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

Lawyers for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law claim he was tortured by the US and have asked a judge to dismiss the terrorism case against him.

MARYAM was 14 when her father arranged for her to marry Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, the man who would become the al Qaeda courier of Zero Dark Thirty fame and unwittingly lead the Americans to Osama bin Laden.