NEW YORK - A New York federal judge has set the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for January after defence lawyers said US budget cuts would make it hard to prepare by an earlier date. Judge Lewis Kaplan issued an order signed Tuesday fixing a January 7 start date for the trial ...

United States says their assessment concludes that there is no evidence that Pakistani government knew about Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden's location who was killed in an operation in Abbottabad in May 2011.This was stated by the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command William H. McRaven in ...

NEW DELHI - Hindu activists on Friday disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan. Members of the hardline Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stormed the set in Chandigarh - the northern ...

Last month, Ron Paul said he would not have ordered the military action that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden. In his view, It was absolutely not necessary. Never mind that the raid by Navy SEALS fulfilled what had been a stated US foreign-policy objective since 2001, tracking down and ...

Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize the power of the Web to spawn an army of online followers who will prolong Al-Qaedas war against the West ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON - In what may be an attempt to completely destroy Osama bi Laden's image, US official claimed Friday that the big cache of computer files taken from OBLs compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos. The officials, who were not named, would not ...

DUBAI (AFP) - An Islamist website has accused the United States of releasing a fake tape of an ageing Osama bin Laden watching images of himself on television, and posted a video on YouTube it says offers proof. Shoumoukh al-Islam, the main website that broadcasts Al-Qaeda videos, posted a video ...

ABBOTTABAD (AFP) - Three women, 12 children, cows, rabbits and chickens all hid behind the high wall where Osama bin Laden carved out a family life, set to the gentle rhythm of changing seasonal crops outside his gate. Mobile phone video footage taken Tuesday by a Pakistani soldier offered a final ...

WASHINGTON - Some US Muslim scholars differed on the sea burial of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed by US forces in Abbottabad. Islamic studies chairman Akbar Ahmed at American University told The New York Times any other burial could have made the place a focus of discontent. Shrines are ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistans spy agency should have known Osama bin Laden was hiding not far from its capital, Afghan officials said on Wednesday, the first direct comments from Kabul. The case also raised questions about Pakistans ability to protect its nuclear weapons adequately, said Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information & Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Wednesday in the Senate elaborating the governments position on the killing of Osama Bin Laden said it was a unilateral action of US forces while the lawmakers termed the statement evasive, incoherent and apologetic. Later, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - An IT consultant in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad was an Internet celebrity on Monday after unwittingly providing a real-time account of the attack that killed Osama. Sohaib Athar, who tweets under the name ReallyVirtual, began sending Twitter messages complaining about ...

KABUL (AFP) - The United States is erecting billboards in Afghanistan offering hefty rewards for Osama bin Laden, Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and US Al-Qaeda member Adam Gadahn, the embassy said Saturday. Ten of the large Rewards for Justice boards were being erected countrywide, two of ...

Pakistan's 61st Independence Day is being celebrated across the country with great fervor and zest here on Thursday. Special prayers were offered for the development of the country in Morning prayers. The central ceremony was held at Jinnah Convention Center in Islamabad where Prime Minister Syed ...