UN report: Sayf al-’Adl widely seen as new al-Qaida leader
February 14, 2023 GMTUNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say the predominant view among member nations is that the leadership of al-Qaida has passed to Sayf al-’Adl, who was responsible for Osama bin Laden's security and trained some of the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attack on the U.S.
Biden’s handwritten notes part of classified docs probe
February 2, 2023 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel's investigation into the handling of classified documents.
Today in History: September 16, GM is founded
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CNN hires ex-NYPD official, intelligence expert John Miller
September 6, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — John Miller, who has held major jobs in both justice agencies and journalism, is joining CNN as chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, the network said on Tuesday.
Miller has worked at both ABC News and CBS News during his career.
Biden: Killing of al-Qaida leader is long-sought ‘justice’
August 2, 2022 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S.
Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida
August 2, 2022 GMTCAIRO (AP) — The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic, when a visitor arrived with a tempting offer: a chance to treat Islamic fighters battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
EXPLAINER: Who was al-Zawahri — and why did US kill him?
August 2, 2022 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept.
Report: Prince Charles’ charity got donation from bin Ladens
July 31, 2022 GMTLONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million pound ($1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.
Ahoy! Gonzaga, Michigan State to play on carrier deck
July 14, 2022 GMTSAN DIEGO (AP) — They’re going to try to play college basketball on an aircraft carrier again, and nautical veteran Tom Izzo and Michigan State will get a return trip to San Diego Bay to face Gonzaga on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on Veteran's Day.
Taliban leader: Afghan soil won’t be used to launch attacks
July 6, 2022 GMTISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada said Wednesday that Afghan soil will not be used to launch attacks against other countries, and he asked the international community to not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
US: Afghan national freed from Guantanamo Bay after 15 years
June 24, 2022 GMTISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghan prisoner held in U.S. custody for nearly 15 years has been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a federal court ruled that he was unlawfully detained, the U.S.
Al-Qaida chief blames US for Ukraine invasion in new video
May 7, 2022 GMTBAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri made an appearance in a pre-recorded video to mark the 11th anniversary of the death of his predecessor Osama bin Laden.
Today in History: May 1, Americans hear of bin Laden’s death
May 1, 2022 GMTOn May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation. (Because of the time difference, it was early May 2 in Pakistan, where the al-Qaida leader met his end.)
Al-Qaida leader circulates video, dispels rumor of his death
April 6, 2022 GMTISLAMABAD (AP) — A rare video has appeared of al-Qaida's chief praising an Indian Muslim woman who in February defied a ban on wearing the traditional headscarf, or hijab. The footage is the first proof in months that the man who was once Osama bin Laden's No.
Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity
February 13, 2022 GMTKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.
NATO chief says mission creep, corruption hurt Afghan effort
December 1, 2021 GMTRIGA, Latvia (AP) — NATO became a victim of mission creep in Afghanistan as the international community upped its aims from fighting extremists to rebuilding the conflict-torn country over two decades, the military organization’s civilian leader said Wednesday.
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The Latest: Taliban flag flies at Afghan presidential palace
September 11, 2021 GMTKABUL, Afghanistan -- A Taliban official said that the group raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace in a brief ceremony on Saturday — the same day the U.S. and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept.
Saudi Arabia, 20 years after 9/11: ‘A country in the making’
September 11, 2021 GMTDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi Arabia of today is far different from the Saudi Arabia of Sept. 11, 2001.
All but four of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens, and the Saudi kingdom was the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaida and mastermind of the attack 20 years ago.
EXPLAINER: What was, and is, al-Qaida?
September 8, 2021 GMTDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Born out of the 1980s war against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, the terror group al-Qaida under Osama bin Laden grew into a generational threat to America that culminated in its Sept.
CIA veteran: al-Qaida will rebuild within Afghanistan
September 7, 2021 GMTFALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The CIA man who briefed President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and later President Barack Obama on the intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that he’s convinced the Taliban will invite al-Qaida to rebuild in Afghanistan.
Surviving 9/11 was ‘just the first piece of the journey’
September 4, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Trapped deep in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, Will Jimeno lived through the unthinkable. Twenty years later, he’s still living with it.
Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: Once hopeful, now sad
August 31, 2021 GMTKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the Hindu Kush Mountains when the Taliban disappeared from Kabul, the battered capital of Afghanistan.
The bodies of foreign Arabs who had stayed behind were mutilated and bloodied.
Father of first American killed: Afghanistan end ‘shameful’
August 18, 2021 GMTMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Mike Spann, a Marine turned CIA officer, felt a duty to go to Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In one of his last phone calls home to check on his children, he told his father he was hopeful they would gather information to locate the mastermind of the attacks, Osama bin Laden, his father recalled.
Analysis: How Afghan war showed limits of US military power
July 17, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, a seemingly tidy success against a government that had given refuge to 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Bush criticizes Afghanistan withdrawal, fears for women
July 14, 2021 GMTBERLIN (AP) — Former President George W. Bush criticized the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan in an interview with a German broadcaster released Wednesday, saying he fears that Afghan women and girls will “suffer unspeakable harm.”
A timeline of more than 40 years of war in Afghanistan
July 2, 2021 GMTThe former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal, and setting the country on a path of 40 years of seemingly endless wars and conflict.
NATO chief says Afghan exit going well as 10 die in attacks
June 1, 2021 GMTBRUSSELS (AP) — NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military organization’s pullout from Afghanistan is going well, as at least six people were killed Tuesday in a series of attacks that plunged the country's capital, Kabul, into darkness.
AP Interview: NATO chief says Afghan forces can cope alone
May 27, 2021 GMTABOARD HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH (AP) — NATO has helped provide security in Afghanistan for almost two decades but the government and armed forces in the conflict-torn country are strong enough to stand on their own feet without international troops to back them, the head of the military organization said Thursday.
EXPLAINER: Much about US pullout from Afghanistan is unclear
May 22, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — When he pulled the plug on the American war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said the reasons for staying, 10 years after the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, had become "increasingly unclear.” Now that a final departure is in sight, questions about clarity have shifted to Biden's post-withdrawal plan.
FBI employee accused of storing classified documents at home
May 21, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI employee has been indicted on charges that she stored classified documents and other national security information at home over the course of more than a decade, the Justice Department said Friday.
Navy SEALs to shift from counterterrorism to global threats
April 28, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years after they found and killed Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy SEALs are undergoing a major transition to improve leadership and expand their commando capabilities to better battle threats from global powers like China and Russia...
High court to hear Guantanamo prisoner’s state secrets case
April 26, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the U...
Biden’s gamble: Will pulling troops revive extremist threat?
April 14, 2021 GMTBRUSSELS (AP) — At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9/11. Then it was about shoring up a weak government and its weak army so that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida could never again threaten the United States...
US to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
April 14, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country, several U...
William McRaven adapts bestseller ‘Make Your Bed’ for kids
February 15, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is continuing his career as an author...
Tahar Rahim breaks out in Guantanamo drama ‘The Mauritanian’
February 9, 2021 GMTKevin Macdonald was going to turn down directing “The Mauritanian.”
He’d read Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s best-selling memoir about his experience being kept behind bars in Cuba for 14 years without charges, but couldn’t see anything aside from a fascinating historical document in his “Guantánamo Diary...
Sudan says US Congress moves ahead on ending pariah status
December 22, 2020 GMTCAIRO (AP) — Sudan's Justice Ministry said Tuesday the U.S. Congress has moved forward on Washington's promise to end the African country's pariah status, passing legislation that grants Sudan some immunity from legal action by Americans against its involvement in militant attacks.
William McRaven’s next book is called ‘The Hero Code’
December 3, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has a new book coming out. William McRaven's “The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived" is scheduled for April.
Official: Suicide car bomber kills 4 people in Afghanistan
November 9, 2020 GMTKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber in Afghanistan killed at least four people and wounded 40 in an attack on a police base in the country's southern Kandahar province, a provincial official said Monday...
Pakistan’s prime minister says US ‘martyred’ bin Laden
June 26, 2020 GMTIslamabad (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister said Thursday the United States “martyred” the al-Qaida leader and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, a term that reflected a subtle jab at Washington as it's mainly used for honorable figures slain in battle...
US cites rise in Iran-backed and white supremacist attacks
June 24, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is claiming significant victories against global terrorism but says Iran continues to increase its support for extremists and that white supremacist attacks are on the rise...
High court allows bigger award in 1998 embassy bombings case
May 18, 2020 GMTThe Supreme Court is allowing a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings by al-Qaida of the U...
Sidelined by pandemic, Trump campaign turns to digital shows
May 3, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The streaming video began and, within minutes, the president’s eldest son was musing that Osama bin Laden had endorsed Joe Biden...
AP Explains: Militant fighters in final battle in Syria
March 6, 2020 GMTBEIRUT (AP) — Intermingled among 3 million civilians under siege in the Syrian government's assault on the last opposition stronghold are tens of thousands of al-Qaida-linked fighters and other militants who came from around the world to take part in the country's civil war...
US, Taliban truce takes effect, setting stage for peace deal
February 21, 2020 GMTISLAMABAD (AP) — A temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban took effect on Friday, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal next week aimed at ending 18 years of war in Afghanistan and bringing U...
US targets al-Qaida leaders in West Africa and Mideast
November 7, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is trying to turn up pressure on three senior al-Qaida leaders in Africa and the Middle East.
The State Department placed the head of the main al-Qaida affiliate in Mali on a terrorism blacklist.
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
November 1, 2019 GMTA roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims on extremists, impeachment
October 28, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fabricated a tale about foreshadowing Osama bin Laden's 9/11 attack and warning against a war in Iraq before it happened in a weekend of exaggerated boasts and faulty assertions about the U...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump spins tales on bin Laden, Iraq war
October 28, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump falsely boasted that he predicted Osama bin Laden's 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and inaccurately asserted he had always opposed the war in Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) — Two high-risk raids. Two dramatic moments in the White House. Photos taken in the White House Situation Room during the killings of Islamic State leader NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the "Looney Tunes Terrorist" if his glasses fell off and he couldn't shoot straight, federal prosecutors said Friday...Situation Room: 2 photos capture vastly different presidents
October 27, 2019 GMTMan sought guns, grenades for Times Square attack, feds say
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