Omar Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden's son Omar was refused entry to Egypt today, airport sources said, giving no reason why his name was on a list of people banned from the country.

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist who played a key role in the 1989 coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir to power and who once hosted Osama bin Laden, died Saturday at the age of 84, Sudan's state-run news agency said.

One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar has cast a long shadow over Afghanistan ever since he led a young band of zealots to power almost two decades ago, imposing brutal Islamist rule over the country.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir vowed Tuesday at his swearing in for another five-year term to open a "new page", saying he would bring peace and mend relations with the West.

He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban's one-eyed leader an "angel" and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad.

A new jihadi magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities.

Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta Thursday to pay tribute to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on the second anniversary of his death.

A Qatari constructor, founded by a son of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has bolstered its bid to win contracts ahead of the 2022 soccer World Cup by forming a joint venture with Spain's Coprosa. Qatar Bin Laden Group will hold 51 percent of the new company, BC Group - to be based in Doha - and Coprosa 49 percent, chief executive Omar bin...

Najwa bin Laden, slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's first wife, was his favourite because she was his only love match. The rest of Osama's wives were arranged - women that he had never met before, says biographer Jean Sasson.The American writer's new book, "Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World", opens a d...

A Taliban leader tipped-off the US about where Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, a media report here said.The mirror.co.uk cited secret papers found at Osama's high-walled compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad city as suggesting that the Al Qaeda chief's cover was blown by his trusted ally, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Baradar.Washington, in r...

The US has handed over to Pakistan a list of five terrorists, seeking immediate intelligence information on them. It reportedly also expects Pakistan to possibly target these terrorists in joint operations.The list was discussed during two meetings between Pakistani and US officials in the past two weeks, and also during Secretary of State Hillary ...

From the Taliban's hidden mud compounds to NATO's headquarters in Brussels and the Pentagon, combatants in a decade-long war are asking versions of the same question: How does Osama bin Laden's death change the struggle over who will control Afghanistan? The Taliban's spiritual leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, is said to be in Pakistan. For the Taliba...

A top US general on Thursday said Taliban leader Mullah Omar should be "worried" after US forces killed Osama bin Laden, predicting the raid would damage the Afghan insurgency's morale.Major General Richard Mills, who recently finished his tour commanding Marines in southern Afghanistan, said the assault on Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan demonstr...

Osama bin Laden's son Omar has been denied a visa to promote his new book in France and elsewhere in Europe, his French publisher said on Thursday.

Osama bin Laden's son Omar was refused entry to Egypt today, airport sources said, giving no reason why his name was on a list of people banned from the country.

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist who played a key role in the 1989 coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir to power and who once hosted Osama bin Laden, died Saturday at the age of 84, Sudan's state-run news agency said.

One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar has cast a long shadow over Afghanistan ever since he led a young band of zealots to power almost two decades ago, imposing brutal Islamist rule over the country.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir vowed Tuesday at his swearing in for another five-year term to open a "new page", saying he would bring peace and mend relations with the West.

He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban's one-eyed leader an "angel" and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad.

A new jihadi magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities.

Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta Thursday to pay tribute to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on the second anniversary of his death.

A Qatari constructor, founded by a son of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has bolstered its bid to win contracts ahead of the 2022 soccer World Cup by forming a joint venture with Spain's Coprosa. Qatar Bin Laden Group will hold 51 percent of the new company, BC Group - to be based in Doha - and Coprosa 49 percent, chief executive Omar bin...

Najwa bin Laden, slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's first wife, was his favourite because she was his only love match. The rest of Osama's wives were arranged - women that he had never met before, says biographer Jean Sasson.The American writer's new book, "Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World", opens a d...

A Taliban leader tipped-off the US about where Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, a media report here said.The mirror.co.uk cited secret papers found at Osama's high-walled compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad city as suggesting that the Al Qaeda chief's cover was blown by his trusted ally, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Baradar.Washington, in r...

The US has handed over to Pakistan a list of five terrorists, seeking immediate intelligence information on them. It reportedly also expects Pakistan to possibly target these terrorists in joint operations.The list was discussed during two meetings between Pakistani and US officials in the past two weeks, and also during Secretary of State Hillary ...

From the Taliban's hidden mud compounds to NATO's headquarters in Brussels and the Pentagon, combatants in a decade-long war are asking versions of the same question: How does Osama bin Laden's death change the struggle over who will control Afghanistan? The Taliban's spiritual leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, is said to be in Pakistan. For the Taliba...

A top US general on Thursday said Taliban leader Mullah Omar should be "worried" after US forces killed Osama bin Laden, predicting the raid would damage the Afghan insurgency's morale.Major General Richard Mills, who recently finished his tour commanding Marines in southern Afghanistan, said the assault on Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan demonstr...

Osama bin Laden's son Omar has been denied a visa to promote his new book in France and elsewhere in Europe, his French publisher said on Thursday.