Salim Hamdan, who was convicted of aiding al-Qaida in August and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison, is on his way home to Yemen. He would have been eligible for release in January with credit for time served.

More than 1,500 audiocassette tapes taken in 2001 from Osama bin Laden's former residential compound in Qandahar, Afghanistan, are yielding new insights into the radical Islamic militant leader's intellectual development in the years leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Earlier there was a report by AFP that the Swiss foreign minister favors a dialogue with Osama Bin Laden in her opening speech on the occasion of the annual 2008 Ambassadors' Conference. Today the Foreign Ministry of Switzerland issued a rectification where it corrects the situation on sourounding the possible dialogue with Osama Bin Laden. See the Swiss rectification below.

Terrorism experts have told a congressional hearing in Washington the search for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is likely to be a long one. The hearing came as it was revealed that a top al-Qaida operative, Abu Obaidah al-Masri, is believed to have died some time ago in Pakistan.

U.S. officials say the Central Intelligence Agency is confident that the voice on a new audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden is authentic.

A new voice recording attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has appeared on the internet.

The head of al-Qaida Osama bin Laden released a new tape where he calls on Europeans to stop supporting the U.S. in their war against Afghanistan.

U.S. President George W. Bush blasted Congress in a Thursday speech for failing to take the terrorist threat seriously, and compared Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.

An audio recording purportedly from al-Qaida terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden calls on insurgents in Iraq to unite.

Pakistan has no information on where terrorist No. 1 Osama bin Laden, the head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, is hiding, the chief spokesman of the Pakistani Army told RIA Novosti.

President Pervez Musharraf’s military's siege of a militant mosque stronghold this year makes him an infidel, Osama bin Laden said, urging Pakistanis to rebel against their President.

A leading Saudi cleric has publicly denounced Osama bin Laden, a rare move among clerics in his native Saudi Arabia who have avoided direct criticism of the Al Qaeda leader.