US President Barack Obama embraced the US commandos he sent after Osama bin Laden, saluting them Friday on behalf of America and people all over the world. "Job well done," he declared.
Pakistan warns US not to stage more raids
Al Qaida confirmed on Friday that Osama bin Laden was dead, dispelling doubts by some Muslims the group's leader had really been killed by US forces, and vowed to mount more attacks on the West.
Obama pivots from bin Laden's death to economy
Al Qaeda said it would soon release an audio tape from Osama bin Laden, made a week before he was killed by US forces, the group said in a statement confirming his death released on Islamist forums on Friday.
Al-Qaida, a notorious terrorist group, has confirmed its leader Osama bin Laden's death, reported local English TV channel Express on Friday afternoon.
Heavily armed Taliban fighters, appearing in a video purporting to show frontline militants in southern Afghanistan, have said the killing of Osama bin Laden will inspire them to continue fighting until all foreign troops have left the country.
One of Osama bin Laden's wives told Pakistani interrogators that the al Qaeda leader and his family had been living for five years in the compound where he was killed by U.S. forces this week, a security official said on Friday.
Holed up in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was scheming how to hit the United States hard again. Al-Qaida plans for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. UN investigators seek facts on Bin Laden death
Al Qaeda says to release bin Laden audio tape
Taliban promise revenge attacks
UN human rights investigators called on the United States on Friday to disclose the full facts surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden, in particular whether there had been any plan to capture him.
Suspected Islamist militants on Friday opened fire on a group of Pakistani Shi'ites in the town of Quetta, killing at least eight and wounding 15, police said, the first major violent incident since the death of Osama bin Laden.
In the days following the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush famously grabbed a bullhorn while speaking to those gathered at ground zero, telling them: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired any shots, a senior US defense official said, acknowledging that the new account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic, intense and prolonged firefight.
US President Barack Obama's carefully calibrated response to the killing of Osama bin Laden is shifting from remembrance to appreciation. One day after laying a wreath at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, the president is going to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to thank participants in the daring raid of bin Laden's Pakistan compound five days ago.