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Added on the 02/05/2012 09:45:11 - Copyright : France 24 EN
US President Barack Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Monday. There, he met troops, signed a deal with the government and marked the first anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. During a televised address from Bagram Air Force Base, he outlined his strategy to wind down the increasingly unpopular war. But he's already facing criticism for using the trip - and bin Laden's death - as a political ploy and stepping stone for his re-election bid.
It's the week the talk went from US President Barack Obama's birth certificate to Osama Bin Laden's death certificate. In this special edition, we take a look at America's victory against al Qaeda and all of its political consequences.
The killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1 sparked a massive surge of online traffic across search engines, social networks and most notably micro-blogging services. More than anything else, the event highlighted the growing importance of the Web at times of breaking news.
Abbottabad (Pakistan), May 2 (EFE) .- (Camera: Jaime León) A decade after his death, Osama Bin Laden is a vague memory in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad where he was killed, and his former residence is now a wasteland where children play cricket or soccer.FOOTAGE OF THE CITY OF ABBOTTABAD, IN PAKISTAN, WHERE BIN LADEN WAS KILLED
Five years after U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama admitted the ideology of terror had not been defeated.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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