June 7, 2023 - On October 10, 2001, Osama bin Laden was added to the newly-launched Most Wanted Terrorists List. The U.S. and other nations joined military operations in Afghanistan to find him and other al Qaeda terrorists, but bin Laden managed to elude capture.

2 weeks ago - In the mid-'80s, if you remember, we and the United - Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said ...

2 days ago - The attacks were linked to local ... In retaliation for the embassy bombings, U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered a series of cruise missile strikes on Bin Laden-related targets in Sudan and Afghanistan on 20 August 1998....

For this phase of the story, Coll interviewed Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He explained how the U.S. almost completely disengaged during this time, seeing Afghanistan as "an old Cold War story" and no longer of strategic importance for the U.S. It was also during this ...

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May 15, 2013 - In two recent statements, Sen. Rand Paul made the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. government once "armed" and "funded" Osama bin Laden. The CIA and several of its top officials deny that the U.S. ever recruited, trained, armed or funded bin Laden during the Afghan war over Soviet occupation ...

January 8, 2022 - In early 1997, the CIA constituted a squad that arrived in Peshawar to try to carry out a snatch operation to get Bin Laden out of Afghanistan. The Americans enlisted Afghans and Pakistanis to help them but aborted the operation. The US activity in Peshawar helped persuade Bin Laden to move ...

From 1984, bin Laden, along with Ayman al-Zawahiri and others, ran the Maktab al-Khidamat, which was set up by the ISI to provide resources to the mujahideen. Also known as the Afghan Service Bureau, the organisation was the forerunner of al-Qaeda (founded in 1988), the terrorist network ...

As a young adult, Osama volunteered to go to Afghanistan as a mujahideen to combat the Soviet invasion of that country. While there, he became radicalized by anti-Western jihadist ideology and founded a military organization called al Qaida, Arabic for “The Base.” After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Bin Laden transformed the focus of al Qaida to opposing the West, particularly the presence of American ...

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The first contact with Bin Laden was in 1979, when the new graduate from the Univ. of Jedah got in touch with the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey. With the help of the CIA and the U.S. Armed Forces intelligence services he began to organize in the early 1980s and network to raise money and to recruit fighters for the Afghan mujahidins that were fighting the Soviets. He did this from the city of Peshawar in Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan...

After Osama bin Laden attacks two American embassies in East Africa, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) named him a most-wanted fugitive. Osama bin Laden moved his operations in 1996 to Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an Islamist fundamentalist group, ran the country.

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May 24, 2025 - October 28: An audio recording of bin Laden threatening France over their involvement in Afghanistan is pronounced genuine by the French Foreign Ministry. May 1: American President Barack Obama addresses the nation at 11:35 pm EST to report that Osama bin Laden has been killed in Abbottabad ...

June 16, 2025 - Hekmatyar has been criticized for ... with American-supplied weapons, causing 2,000 casualties. Hekmatyar was said to be friendly with Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda, who was running an operation for assisting "Afghan Arab" volunteers fighting in Afghanistan, called Maktab ...

September 14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden, the notorious Saudi Arabian militant and founder of al-Qaeda, orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks that shook the world and forever changed global security dynamics.

September 27, 2022 - The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States’ longest war.