PAKISTAN

Less than a fortnight after bin Laden's death, there was indeed a revenge attack on a para-military academy near Peshawar in Pakistan where more than 83 people, majority of them newly trained cadets, were killed.

Pakistani Taliban on Friday carried out its first major strike to avenge the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. security forces in Pakistan earlier this month.

“You've got to focus on the US and the West,” Osama wrote in the journal seized during the U.S. raid at Abbottabad mansion. It reveals that the slain Al-Qaeda leader was preoccupied with attacking the United States over all other targets.

Pakistan militant group, Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the Friday bombings in the country that reportedly killed around 70 people and injured many more.

Two suicide bombings on Friday morning killed at least 70 people outside a paramilitary force academy in Shabqadar, Charsadda district in northwest Pakistan, police said.

Jokes on dreaded (and deceased) terrorist Osama bin Laden have flooded the Internet ever since U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. special ops forces stormed his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed him. Of the several hundreds of jokes on the Al Qaeda leader, these 20 jokes take the cake.

The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said the Al-Qaeda chieftain deserved to have a fair trial rather than face a “unilateral execution” by American commandos.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan will receive an upgrade in security over concerns that the commandos and their families may be subject to threats by terrorists.

On his first visit to Afghanistan since the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, India’s Prime Minister vowed his steadfast support for the fledgling new government in Kabul.

Osama bin Laden's journal found by U.S. sources who raided his northern Pakistan mansion last week reveals the deceased al-Qaeda leader urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.

The Pakistani government has formally filed a protest with the U.S. over the allegedly unsanctioned commando raid by Navy SEALs which resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden and others at a compound in northern Pakistan last week.

Osama bin Laden's handwritten journal - obtained during a raid by U.S. forces last week - shows he urged followers conduct attacks in the U.S. on the scale of 9/11 - involving body counts in the thousands - in order to drive Americans from the Arab world, according to a report.

Legendary Pakistani test cricketer and now politician Imran Khan wants his country to reject financial aid from the United States and distance itself from Washington, in the wake of the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, in his first visit to China since he took office in January, said in Beijing on Wednesday that the elimination of Osama bin Laden was ‘positive’ and will make Afghanistan's transition process easier.

A U.S. senator who viewed Osama Bin Laden's death photos made available by the CIA confirmed that the images were of the terror master mind and that they were 'pretty gruesome'.

Osama bin Laden's fifth wife, Amal al-Sadah, reportedly made a suicide pledge for the sake of her terrorist husband and said she wanted to be martyred with him rather than leave him for safety.

What was discovered in bin Laden's documents.

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said there is no apparent evidence that senior Pakistani officials harbored and protected Osama bin Laden, although he concedes some people in Pakistan must have been aware of the terror chieftain’s existence inside the country.

Grenades were thrown at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi, Pakistan by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle on Wednesday in what might be the first violence response to the killing of Osama bin Laden in the country last week.

The al-Qaeda chief of Yemen has warned the U.S. and the West that the killing of Osama bin Laden will intensify the jihad (holy war) by the terrorist organization, according to SITE monitoring group