AFGHANISTAN

Taliban gunmen have unleashed a series of brutal assaults on government targets in Kandahar, a city in southern Afghanistan.

The Taliban leadership in Afghanistan has said the killing of Osama bin laden will revitalize their fight against the U.S. and its allies in the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama showered fulsome praise on the U.S. Navy SEAL commandos who took part in the pre-dawn swoop in Pakistan on Monday that killed the country's most wanted terror ring leader Osama Bin Laden.

At least two of the helicopters used in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound seems to have been a new stealth design, according to several reports emerging from the scene. The use of such helicopters may have been key to the success of the operation that resulted in bin Laden's death.

The U.S. government is highly vigilant about the possibility of al Qaeda agents seeking revenge for the murder of its former leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the White House said.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro derided U.S. action that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden calling it an abhorrent deed.

The first suspected U.S. drone attack since the death of Osama bin Laden has killed at least 12 militants in a hideout and a vehicle in Pakistan’s lawless tribal regions, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

Osama bin Laden chose his fifth wife Amal al-Sadah from Yemen, the land of his ancestors. She married the terror leader at the age of 17 and lived with him till his last day. She was with him in his final moments, either willingly trying to act as a human shield or pushed in front by her cowering husband.

The early raid on Monday morning that killed world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden carried out by US navy Seals has put them in a spotlight.

Afghan intelligence sources suspected that Osama bin Laden was living in the region around Abbottabad, Pakistan as long ago as four years ago – but nothing was done about it because the president of Pakistan at the time, Pervez Musharraf, angrily rejected any such possibility.

U.S. president Barack Obama will meet on Friday with members of the US Navy SEALs who took part in the commando raid that resulted in the death of terror chief, Osama bin Laden, according to media reports.

Pakistan’s principal Islamist parties have called for massive anti-U.S. demonstrations to protest the “unauthorized” killing of Osama bin Laden by American commando units.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has lamented that the shooting of an unarmed Osama by U.S. Navy SEALs has bothered his conscience.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has warned that the battle against Al Qaeda did not end with the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

As the impact of the death of feared terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden is slowly sinking in across the world, Pakistan is bracing for unwelcome repercussions. On the one hand, the country could lose allies now that there is near-certain evidence that Islamabad was making a mockery of the hunt for Bin Laden. On the other, there would certainly be massive, violent revenge attacks from various terror outfits active in the country.

Al-Qaeda, which means the Base in arabic is an international terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It's biggest and most well known attack are the September 11, 2011 attacks in the United States which launched a warn in Afghanistan to destroy its bases and overthrow the Taliban, the ruling government which harbored Bin Laden.

Sarah Palin has slammed the Obama Administration for not revealing the photos of the dead body of Osama bin Laden.

The reaction in Iran to the death of Osama bin Laden covers a wide spectrum from disbelief to the accusation that the al-Qaeda terror chief was actually a puppet for Israel and the United States.

Efforts to discredit the reports of bin Laden's death might cause problems for the Defense Department

The raging debate over whether the death photos of Osama bin Laden should be released or not to quell rumors has unknowingly only managed to strengthen the voice of conspiracy theorists.

Afghanistan officials have raised doubts about proclamations by Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), that they did not know Osama bin Laden was living in their midst all these years.