Osama bin Laden
Missed chance: UK considered supporting US strike on Bin Laden months before 9/11
Prime minister Tony Blair's aide proposed discussing a hit on the terrorist leader with the US president
UK
December 30, 2022, 12:01 AM
Timeline: Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri's bloody descent into terror
Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden, on whom he had great influence
Egypt
August 02, 2022, 8:00 AM
Inside the operation to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri
From tracking him down to firing a knife-throwing missile that killed the successor to Osama bin Laden, the full story of how the US killed Ayman Al Zawahiri
Asia
August 02, 2022, 4:35 AM
Trustees said Prince Charles charity could accept 2013 donation from bin Laden family
Heir to British throne's foundation given £1m by half-brothers of the former Al Qaeda leader
UK
July 30, 2022, 10:31 PM
US approves release of two Guantanamo detainees
Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard, Sanad Yislam al-Kazim, has been held in Guantanamo for 17 years
US
October 14, 2021, 3:59 PM
'The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden' details US's two-decade long war with Al Qaeda
American journalist Peter Bergen's new book draws on material captured by the US Navy Seal team who carried out the raid that took out bin Laden
Books
September 09, 2021, 4:18 AM
'A Promised Land': Barack Obama's memoir is off to a record-setting start in sales
The book sold about 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours
Books
November 19, 2020, 12:28 PM
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi's brother travelled in and out of Istanbul as his courier for months
Exclusive: Iraqi intelligence officials say ISIS leader’s sibling Juma made regular trips to Europe’s largest city from northern Syria this year on his behalf, Jack Moore reports from Iraq
August 22, 2020, 1:28 PM
Peace TV stations fined £300,000 for hate speeches as it pulls out of the UK
Media watchdog rules hate speeches broadcast were 'very serious' and could encourage vulnerable viewers to commit murder
World
May 16, 2020, 10:43 AM
Experts warn that high-profile ISIS terror arrest in Spain shows group is using virus lockdowns to move around Europe
One of Europe's most wanted terrorists, British extremist Abdel Majed Abdel Bary, had used a coronavirus face mask as a disguise
World
April 22, 2020, 5:14 PM
Europe's most wanted ISIS terrorist used coronavirus masks to hide
British extremist Abdel Majed Abdel Bary has been captured in Spain
Europe
April 21, 2020, 10:20 PM
Donald Trump confirms death of Al Qaeda leader in Yemen
Accounts from Yemen suggest Qassim Al Rimi was killed in a US drone strike in Marib in January
February 07, 2020, 9:06 AM
Killing of Quds Force commander shows how multilateralism is in need of a reboot
It is unprecedented since the Second World War for one state to claim that it had the right to assassinate senior officials in another
Comment
January 07, 2020, 3:30 PM
Taliban agrees to ceasefire in Afghanistan to allow for possible US peace deal, reports
Talks suspended in September when both sides seemed on verge of signing pact
Asia
December 30, 2019, 6:24 AM
Pentagon says no further threat after Saudi airman shooting in US
The review comes after Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani killed three people in a shooting on a US base
December 20, 2019, 9:03 AM
Islamic TV station taken off air by UK watchdog after repeatedly inciting murder
Founder of Peace TV has focus of allegations of incitement for almost a decade
World
December 11, 2019, 6:27 PM
The ‘new beginning’ of ISIS: how the militant group is using Iraq’s blind spot to rise again
Special report: Kurdish officials warn 5,000 fighters are regrouping in an ungoverned sliver of land using scare tactics, cave complexes and tunnel networks, Jack Moore reports from the Qara Chokh Mountain
December 10, 2019, 11:08 AM
Florida attack: Saudi gunman 'showed clips of mass shootings' night before killing three
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said he is not prepared at this point to label the shooting as "terrorism"
December 08, 2019, 3:08 PM
Hamdok’s US visit could establish path to drop Sudan from terrorism listing
Sudan’s PM is country's first leader to visit Washington since 1985
The Americas
December 03, 2019, 9:57 PM
One-dog man ... Donald Trump meets military canine wounded in Baghdadi raid
First lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence also lavish attention on Conan the Belgian Malinois
The Americas
November 26, 2019, 7:50 AM
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