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 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.

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.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

A recreation complex is planned to be built in the town where al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos in 2011, Pakistani officials say.

The town of Abbottabad, where al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in 2011, is planning to build an amusement park.

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.

Three top US senators, including John McCain, the former White House hopeful, slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt film for suggesting torture helped find the al Qaeda chief.

The death toll from attacks on volunteers vaccinating children in Pakistan against polio rose to nine today, officials said.

Internal emails among US military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.

Rumours abound on Twitter and the internet. The consequences of trolling can be traumatic, says Rachel Borrill.

The Pakistani government has ordered foreign staff members of Save the Children to leave the country, a spokesman for the international aid group said today.

America claimed its most significant victory in its controversial targeted bombing campaign after a drone strike in Pakistan killed al Qaida’s second-in-command.

Gunmen opened fire on a political rally in Karachi, Pakistan today, killing at least nine people and sparking rioting, police said.

One year after the Abbottabad raid, al Qaeda’s mastermind is still loose. Bin Laden’s death has only made the search harder, reports Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau, and Daniel Klaidman

Letters from Osama bin Laden’s last hideout show him worrying about mistakes made by his terror network and the need to regain the trust of potential Muslim supporters.

A judge has denied a request to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by US commandos.

Osama bin Laden’s three widows and his children have been deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan is to deport Osama bin Laden’s three widows and their children to Saudi Arabia next week, the family’s lawyer said today.

A Pakistani court convicted Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his grown-up daughters of illegal residency, sentencing them to 45 days’ detention and ordering their deportation to their own countries.

Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his daughters have been convicted of illegally living in Pakistan by one of the country’s courts and jailed for 45 days.

Osama bin Laden lived in five safe houses while on the run in Pakistan and fathered four children – two of them born in government hospitals, according to one his widows.

A Pakistani court is to charge Osama bin Laden’s family with illegally entering and living in the country.

Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions.

Osama bin Laden’s three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in Pakistan, the interior minister says.

Pakistan is more than halfway finished demolishing the three-storey compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos last May.

Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the north-west city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by US commandos last May, residents said today.

Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in- law said in an interview published yesterday.

South-east Asia’s most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants were killed today in a US-backed air strike in the Philippines, military chiefs said.

Unknown assailants fired rocket propelled grenades at the military academy near Osama bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad early this morning, causing damage but no casualties, police said.

Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after US commandos killed him would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration has argued.

PAKISTAN has called on the US to share information about new al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri after US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden’s successor was in Pakistan.

A Pakistani commission investigating the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden has ordered the government to prevent the al-Qaida chief’s relatives from leaving the country without its permission.

FIGHTING across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border will overshadow talks when the two countries meet along with the United States today to map out plans for talks with the Taliban.

The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a police station that killed at least 10 officers.

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.

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

Taliban fighters killed eight Pakistani soldiers at a checkpoint in an Afghan border region that the army had said was cleared of insurgents, while two bomb attacks today in the north-west killed six civilians, officials said.

Osama bin Laden’s deputy has warned that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies.

The United States fired missiles at three suspected militant targets in north-west Pakistan today, killing 16 people and keeping the pressure on insurgents days after a strike was believed to have killed a top al-Qaida commander, intelligence officials said.

Pakistan’s government named the members of a commission tasked with probing the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including how it come about that the al Qaida chief was living in a Pakistani garrison city.

A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck filled with explosives attacked a police building in north-west Pakistan today, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30 other people in the latest round of bloodshed to hit the country since the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden.

A suicide car bomber struck a police building in an army camp in Pakistan’s main north-west city early today, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30.