Osama bin Laden

“We weren’t sent in to murder him”. One of the elite Navy Seals who took part in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden gives details about the mission – but should he have gone public?

An undercover agent who foiled an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, according to US reports.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.

The publication online of documents seized at Osama bin Laden’s house underlines the gulf between western and jihadi thinking.

The question now is will al-Qaeda, with its new North African leadership, be able to capitalise on the politcal instability which follows revolution?

A car bomb explodes outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul hours after US President Barack Obama visits the Afghan capital.

A year after US special forces shot dead the world’s most wanted terrorist, bin Laden’s death has sparked a furious political row. A risky tactic by President Obama – now could it backfire?

Home Secretary Theresa May is to travel to Jordan to try and negotiate a way for the government to deport controversial Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day in 2009 with a device concealed in his underwear, has been given a life sentence.

As US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announces an early switch from a combat to a support role, Alex Thomson reports from Kabul on what will become of Afghanistan once the Americans leave?

Two aid workers, who have been held hostage in Somalia for three months, are freed by US special forces in an early morning operation.

Abu Qatada, described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, is granted the right to stay in the UK because he risks facing an unfair trial in Jordan.

The situation in Afghanistan is serious but improving 10 years after the invasion, Britain’s special representative to the country tells Channel 4 News.

Abu Hafs al Shahri, believed to be al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan, has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Waziristan.

Memorial services are held in New York, London and around the world as victims’ families remember the atrocity that claimed almost 3,000 lives.