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President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a speedy trip to Afghanistan, signing a strategic pact with Kabul on Wednesday and delivering an election-year message to Americans that the war is winding down.

Widows and children of the former al-Qaeda chief arrive in the kingdom after being deported from Pakistan.

Three of Osama bin Laden’s wives and two of his adult daughters were convicted by a Pakistani court Monday of illegally entering the country and sentenced to two more weeks of detention, followed by deportation to their home countries.

Osama bin Laden in his final days schemed over an effort to kill President Obama as well as other top U.S. officials, documents recovered from his compound show.

Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos last May.

U.S. officials suspect Pakistan let the Chinese military see secret technology the U.S. helicopter that crashed in the bin Laden raid.

Osama bin Laden's longtime deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, a fiery ideologue who is known for his deep hatred of the West and helped plan the 9/11 attacks, has taken control of al-Qaida after the death last month of the terror network's founder, the group said Thursday.

Pakistan's intelligence service arrested the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe bin Laden's compound.

Meeting with Pakistani leaders, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S.-Pakistan relationship is at a 'turning point' and that Islamabad needs to ramp up its cooperation in the fight against Al Qaeda militants. Her visit is seen as a fence-mending mission in the wake of the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden, an operation that aggravated mistrust on both sides.

Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden posted on Jihadi websites, in which the Islamist group's ex-leader praised revolutions sweeping the Arab world.