Osama bin Laden

May 9, 2023

In the shadows: The art and history of covert ops

Once upon a time, in a world cloaked in secrecy and danger, there were special missions called covert ops. These…

May 9, 2023

Unseen Valor: Operation Neptune Spear

Operation Neptune Spear was the mission of a lifetime, the kind that Navy SEALs train for years to carry out….

Oct 21, 2022

What to know about September 11, 2001

The September 11 attacks in 2001 changed not just America, but the world at large. “Never forget” quickly became something…

Oct 21, 2022

BYBethaney Phillips

Sep 11, 2022

The CIA created demonic Bin Laden action figures in Operation ‘Devil Eyes’

Directly from the file of “so crazy it has to be true” comes a left-field plot from the CIA itself:…

BYBethaney Phillips

Sep 11, 2022

BYSung Kim

Feb 9, 2023

What happened aboard the Carl Vinson during Bin Laden’s burial at sea

The dreaded announcement came through the 1MC: River City. If being deployed in the middle of the ocean isn’t bad enough, try being deployed in the middle of the ocean with no comms. The unfamiliar sound of a V-22 Osprey overpowered the soun…

BYSung Kim

Feb 9, 2023

May 12, 2021

The Untold Story of the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden

It has been 10 years since May 2, 2011, the night a top-secret SEAL raid took out notorious terrorist and…

May 12, 2021

BYTeam Mighty

May 1, 2023

Today in military history: Osama bin Laden is killed

On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, mastermind of 9/11 attacks, was killed by SEAL Team Six. After nearly a…

BYTeam Mighty

May 1, 2023

May 4, 2020

The 6 wildest conspiracy theories about Osama Bin Laden’s death

In a daring, well-documented nighttime raid, 23 Navy SEALs landed in an al-Qaida compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They were there to kill or capture the world’s most wanted man. The entire operation lasted only 40 minutes and ended with the death …

May 4, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Meet the pilots who fly SEALs and Delta Force to their most dangerous operations

The Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Airborne, (SOAR-A), has earned the nickname “The Night Stalkers.” Operating under the cover of night or the shadows of dawn, these elite pilots are responsible for getting special opera…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Why this schoolteacher grew a beard for a decade

On May 2, 2011, a Seattle-based school teacher shaved his face for the first time in a decade. It was one of those beard-growing events you hear about athletes doing or when people grow facial hair for a good cause. But the only thing special about …

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

A US civilian tried to get revenge in Afghanistan with a sword

Gary Brooks Faulkner, a construction worker from Colorado, was detained by police with a pistol and a sword. Except for the sword, this would not be unusual in Colorado. But he wasn’t in Colorado. He was in Pakistan, and he was there to avenge the …

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Bin Laden’s mother says the terror leader was ‘brainwashed’

The mother of the late Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, has said in her first interview with Western media that her infamous son was “brainwashed” into a life of extremism. Alia Ghanem said in the interview published by The Guardian newspap…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

Feb 5, 2020

Osama bin Laden went to Afghanistan to avenge his father’s death

Relatives of Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, spoke out in an interview w…

Feb 5, 2020

Sep 12, 2019

Bin Laden was ‘not a fighter’ and fainted when battles broke out

Osama Bin Laden, the terror leader behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US, has gone down as one of the most vicious figures in history, but he admittedly lacked the courage to fight in an actual battle. In

Sep 12, 2019

Jun 23, 2019

This Navy SEAL claims he killed bin Laden–and that’s not all

The man who claims he was the SEAL Team 6 operator who shot Osama bin Laden in 2011 has written a new book, and his retelling of that raid shows the reason photos of the terror leader’s body were never released. The book, “