Osama bin Laden

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) continued to criticize President Barack Obama Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" for using the office of the president to campaign for reelection rather than focus on governing.

"The president and I have a very good relationship. As a result, I try and avoid personal attacks on the president. But, let me say something. The president is getting some very bad advice from his campaign team, because, he's diminishing the presidency by picking fights, going after straw men every day," Boehner told host Candy Crowley.

The accusation was not new for Boehner. more >>

Two copies of an English version of the Holy Bible were found in the building where Osama bin Laden spent his last days and was killed by U.S. forces, Pakistani officials revealed on Tuesday night.

The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the al-Qaida leader was shot dead by U.S. Navy SEALs last May, is being demolished this week. A number of interesting discoveries have been made among the rubble, however.

Among them are cleverly hidden radios and two copies of the Bible, but different theories exist about why the extremist Islamic leader, who waged a holy war against the U.S., would have Bibles in his possession. Certain passages have apparently been highlighted in different colors, leading some Pakistani intelligence officials to believe that they might be coded messages referencing future terror attacks, The Times of India reported. Pakistan's ISI security service is conducting further investigations on the texts in question. more >>

Americans have been urged to proceed as normal despite word of "credible" terror threats circulatIing in the news since late Thursday afternoon. The question remains whether Americans will continue with their plans to honor 9/11 victims amid the threat of a possible terrorist attack.

Yesterday, U.S. officials announced a potential terror threat from al-Qaida militants. According to reports, three men (one of whom may be a U.S. citizen) entered the United States in mid-August from Pakistan. They may or may not have something to do with a reported threat of vehicle bombs.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a statement stating that the threats come from "specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information." more >>

Al-Qaida is “on a steady slide,” according to John Brennan, White House counterterrorism chief. Brennan told The Associated Press Wednesday that the killing of al-Qaida’s latest second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, in Pakistan last week was a “huge blow” to the organization.

This comes just months after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.

"Al-Qaida is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head," Brennan said. more >>

As the nation prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the National Geographic Channel will be premiering a documentary that features an exclusive interview with George W. Bush in which the former president discusses his experiences on Sept. 11, 2001.

In the interview, to air Sunday, Aug. 28 at 10 p.m., Bush discusses for the first time on camera his perspective on the deadly 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States that occurred during his tenure in the executive office.

Entitled "George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview," the program is described as an in-depth interview in which the former president "recalls what he was thinking and feeling and what drove the real-time, life-or-death decisions he faced in the first minutes, hours and days" after the attacks. more >>

Another milestone has reportedly been reached in the U.S.-led fight against global terrorism.

Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al-Qaida terrorist, is presumed dead after a drone strike in Pakistan last month.

One senior official reported to CNN that he is “99 percent sure” that the terrorist is dead but that "the folks that make that determination aren't ready to say so definitively." more >>