Osama bin Laden's death was the denouement of a decade-long search for America's public enemy number one

Osama bin Laden was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier because there was "no land alternative," a senior Department of Defense official said Monday.

Bin Laden dead after shoot-out in Abbottabad compound then buried at sea as US tells al-Qaida: 'You cannot defeat us'

WASHINGTON -- Before the top of the fourth inning on Military Appreciation Night at Nationals Park, the public address announcer encouraged everyone at the baseball stadium to cheer for the active or retired members of the service who were in the stands Monday, recipients of free tickets.Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" blared through the ballpark, a group of military personnel seated behind home plate waved their red Nationals caps, thousands of fans rose to applaud, along with players f...

As Osama bin Laden shifts from millstone to milestone in America’s collective memory, U.S. intelligence teams are frantically scouring a “robust trove” of data gathered during Monday’s dramatic takedown in search of clues to other senior Al Qaeda figures.

Rosaleen Tallon kissed her three children good night and went to sleep feeling at peace. The terrorist responsible for the death of her brother, New York firefighter Sean Patrick Tallon, was dead. Her two boys and her little girl had been assured that the "bad man" behind the attacks that claimed their uncle was gone.

US legal analysts say the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan were acting within the full authority of both international and American law.

Looks like Osama bin Laden is worth more dead than alive, in the make-a-buck marketing world of souvenirs, collectibles and tchotchkes.

Are we really supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know Osama bin Laden was living there for five years? Salman Rushdie on why it’s time to declare the country a terrorist state. Osama bin Laden died on Walpurgisnacht, the night of black sabbaths and bonfires. Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off his broomstick and perish in a fierce firefight. One of the most common status updates on Facebook after the news broke was “Ding, Dong, the witch is dead,” and that sp...

Notes reveal CIA was tracking al-Qaida leader's trusted network of couriers, including his most trusted man who got killed in the raid

Pakistan, perhaps the world’s greatest victim of terrorism, joins the other targets of al-Qaeda — the people of the United States, Britain, Spain, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria — in our satisfaction that the source of the greatest evil of the new millennium has been silenced, and his victims given justice. He was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone. Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, ...