Two Obama administration officials say DNA evidence has proven that Osama bin Laden is dead, with 99.9 percent confidence.
Afghan leaders hailed the killing of Osama bin Laden on Monday, but the only immediate impact on the Afghan war will likely be a spike in violence.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that strikes on al-Qaida will not end with the death of its leader Osama bin Laden.
The government of Nepal hailed the US operation that succeeded in killing Osama bin Laden as an achievement in the fight against terrorism.
The Pakistani government did not hide head of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden in a high security compound, Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith said on Monday.
This video frame grab, obtained from ABC News on May 2, 2011, shows the interior bedroom in the mansion where Osama Bin Laden was killed May 1.
Some local law enforcement agencies in the US were adding security measures Monday following Osama bin Laden's death, out of what one called "an abundance of caution."
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by US forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an "Arab holy warrior".
Pakistan on Monday confirmed the death of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an “intelligence-driven military operation” conducted by the US army, in the early hours at Abbottabad.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to accelerate the country's planned exit from nuclear energy by fixing a precise date, business daily Handelsblatt quoted senior government sources as saying on Monday.
Smoke from the remains of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey, in this September 12, 2001 file picture.
France hails the United States' killing of Osama bin Laden "a major event in the global fight against terrorism," the Elysee Palace said Monday.