Osama bin Laden death anniversary

One year ago today, on May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in a daring raid on his compound near Islamabad, Pakistan. Through thousands of documents seized during the assault—many of them slated to be declassified later this week—we've learned a lot about the terror leader since his death.

President Obama to address U.S. from Afghanistan one year after death of bin Laden... after SEALs slam him for taking credit for killing.

President Obama will today address the nation from Afghanistan - where he has taken a secret trip to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai exactly one year after the death of Osama bin Laden.
 

The president arrived in Kabul shortly after 2.30 p.m. to sign an agreement with Karzai cementing the U.S. role in the country after the war ends in 2014.  CONTINUE . . . . .      CONTINUE . . . . .

A suicide bomb struck a Kabul shrine, Karzai cancels UK trip.

A suicide bomb struck a Kabul shrine, killing at least 54, while the other blast struck near a Shia mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif at about the same time.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has cancelled a visit to the UK to return to Afghanistan, after Tuesday`s deadly attacks in the capital, Kabul, and in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
The twin attacks apparently targeting Shia Muslims killed at least 58 people. 

 

Afghan police officers stand guard

A suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, as worshippers were marking the Shiite holy day of Ashura, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Kargar Norughli said. Fifty-six people were killed and 193 were wounded, Norughli added.
Four people were killed in an explosion at a roundabout on a busy street in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, police official Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. Another 21 were wounded in that attack.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has canceled a visit to the UK to return home following Tuesday's deadly blasts in the capital, Kabul, and in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
Other source in London said Karzai had been due in London late Tuesday from Germany but was flying back to Afghanistan after the twin suicide attacks killed 60 people and wounded scores of others in the two cities.

"The first time that on such an important religious day in Afghanistan terrorism of that horrible nature is taking place".
Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said the attack on the Ashura pilgrims "on one of the holiest of days in the Islamic calendar is an attack against Islam itself, and we denounce and condemn these atrocities in the strongest of terms.
Allen said."Our prayers and deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones of those innocent civilians killed or injured in today's horrific attacks,"
A NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan called the attacks "horrifying."
"That men, women and children are killed and injured on Ashura is particularly tragic," he said.
The bomb which exploded near the main mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif was apparently strapped to a bicycle, and went off shortly after the Kabul blast.
Four people were killed and 17 injured in that attack.

Suicide bombers attack in Afghan

Suicide bombers attack in Afghan

Six suicide bombers explosive vests stormed a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 22 people in attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, north of Kabul.

The province is home to Bagram Air Field, a sprawling base for US and NATO troops.

The coordinated assault is the most recent in a string of spectacular Taliban attacks within an hour's drive of Kabul, near the heart of the country and its determination to target Afghanistan's nascent leadership.

Early this month, the Taliban shot down a helicopter in a province on the western border of the capital, killing 38 American and Afghan troops.

In late June, gunmen killed at least 21 people in an attack on the Inter-Continental hotel in Kabul itself.

The violence is a sign of NATO's broader struggles in the east, where persistent insurgent attacks forced the alliance to pull forces back from outlying patrol bases and outposts.

Move forces from Taliban heartlands in the south to reinforce troops fighting insurgents in the east that’s the coalition, which plans to send 10,000 troops home by the end of the year.