Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.

The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were a coordinated series of suicide attacks perpetrated by the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four airliners, then flew one into each of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The third plane crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. In response to the attacks, the United States launched the global war on terror, seeking to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, and the governments purported to support them. This foreign policy agenda was conducted over the next two decades.

U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

key member of al-Qaeda

organization aimed at fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan

Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar (1919-2014)

former mansion in Pakistan

conspiracy theories about when and how Osama bin Laden died

August 6, 2001 intelligence memo

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one of the sons of Osama bin Laden

Alleged CIA collusion with Osama bin Laden

revolt by the Shias of Gilgit Baltistan

former CIA unit

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