<p>Nabih al-Ghanem, the mother of bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, was taken to a hospital in Latakia in northern Syria where she died after suffering the stroke, the Asharq Al-Awsat daily said.<br /><br />It said the woman in her 70s "could not bear the bad news and lost consciousness" after US President Barack Obama announced bin Laden's killing by US commandos during a raid in Pakistan on May 2.<br /><br />Bin Laden had married Najwa, his Syrian-born cousin, when he was 17, and they had 11 children, the paper said, adding she had left Afghanistan a few days before the September 11, 2011 terror attacks on the United States and now lives in Syria.<br /><br />In January last year, Asharq Al-Awsat reported that a son of the Al-Qaeda leader had been allowed to leave Iran to look for his mother in Syria.<br /><br />Part of the bin Laden family, whose whereabouts have been unclear since the 9/11 attacks, was in Iran, the daily said, adding that bin Laden had taken a second wife in 1983 and they had three children before divorcing.<br /><br />Numerous people had lived alongside bin Laden in his dwelling in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The compound housed three of his wives and a dozen of their children, according to Pakistani authorities.</p>.<p>At least five people were killed during the US assault: bin Laden, whose body was taken by the Americans, one of his sons, his two bodyguards -- known as the "Kuwaitis" -- and a woman, according to Pakistani security sources.<br /><br />The survivors -- three women and their children -- are in Pakistani army detention.<br /><br />During interrogation, the youngest of the wives, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, a 29-year-old Yemeni, had told investigators that bin Laden had lived in the villa for five years. </p>
<p>Nabih al-Ghanem, the mother of bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, was taken to a hospital in Latakia in northern Syria where she died after suffering the stroke, the Asharq Al-Awsat daily said.<br /><br />It said the woman in her 70s "could not bear the bad news and lost consciousness" after US President Barack Obama announced bin Laden's killing by US commandos during a raid in Pakistan on May 2.<br /><br />Bin Laden had married Najwa, his Syrian-born cousin, when he was 17, and they had 11 children, the paper said, adding she had left Afghanistan a few days before the September 11, 2011 terror attacks on the United States and now lives in Syria.<br /><br />In January last year, Asharq Al-Awsat reported that a son of the Al-Qaeda leader had been allowed to leave Iran to look for his mother in Syria.<br /><br />Part of the bin Laden family, whose whereabouts have been unclear since the 9/11 attacks, was in Iran, the daily said, adding that bin Laden had taken a second wife in 1983 and they had three children before divorcing.<br /><br />Numerous people had lived alongside bin Laden in his dwelling in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The compound housed three of his wives and a dozen of their children, according to Pakistani authorities.</p>.<p>At least five people were killed during the US assault: bin Laden, whose body was taken by the Americans, one of his sons, his two bodyguards -- known as the "Kuwaitis" -- and a woman, according to Pakistani security sources.<br /><br />The survivors -- three women and their children -- are in Pakistani army detention.<br /><br />During interrogation, the youngest of the wives, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, a 29-year-old Yemeni, had told investigators that bin Laden had lived in the villa for five years. </p>