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Topic: benghazi

May 16, 2013
8:44 pm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) with US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting last March (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Erdogan talk Syria, say ‘Assad needs to go’

US remains reluctant to take the kind of action demanded by Turkey, including more aggressive steps to topple the regime

By Desmond Butler

May 14, 2013
10:36 pm

File photo of then-US ambassador to Kuwait, Deborah Jones, in Kuwait City, March 8, 2010 (photo credit: AP/Gustavo Ferrari)

Senate panel approves US ambassador to Libya

Deborah Kay Jones to fill Chris Stevens’s position, left vacant since his assassination in Benghazi last year

May 11, 2013
1:30 am

US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN in June 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

State Dep’t sought to change Libya talking points

Senior US officials asked that references to terror groups, prior warnings be deleted from UN envoy’s comments after Benghazi attack

By Donna Cassata and Julie Pace

March 16, 2013
2:41 am

In this April 2006 file photo, Egyptian Copts cross their wrists in defiance outside the Saints Church in the Sidi Bishr district of Alexandria in Egypt. (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Christians claim they were tortured in Libya

Libyan security forces allegedly detain, abuse dozens of Copts in Benghazi

March 2, 2013
6:56 pm

Libyan official: Egyptian Copt detainees to be deported

Nearly 100 Copts were held for allegedly spreading Christianity, 50 of them are being charged

February 11, 2013
2:27 am

Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, speaks in December during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, D.C. (photo credit: AP/Ann Heisenfelt)

Senator vows to delay Obama’s nominees over Libya

Republican lawmaker accuses White House of ‘stonewalling’ requests for more info about the Sept. 11 attacks on the US consulate

January 26, 2013
10:56 pm

Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya in February 2012. (photo credit: AP/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Fears grow that Libya is incubator of turmoil

Islamist groups on the rise in North Africa since the fall of Gaddafi, and Malian conflict is the latest example

January 12, 2013
10:45 pm

Libyan National Army soldiers in Benghazi prepare to enter Rafallah al-Sahati Islamic Militia Brigades compound, seen behind the wall. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Italian consul in Libya shot at in car but unhurt

From the web Reuters: Benghazi-based diplomat comes under fire months after attack on US embassy

January 1, 2013
2:14 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton expected to make full recovery after blood clot in head

Doctors say US state secretary did not suffer stroke, is in good spirits and making excellent progress

By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee

January 1, 2013
2:05 am

Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins presenting the Benghazi report in Washington on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Intelligence community behind fuzzy Benghazi reports, Senate finds

Committee report also concludes State Department was wrong to keep consulate open despite terror warnings

By Larry Margasak

December 15, 2012
8:23 pm

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton giving a speech in Washington, DC, in October (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Clinton faints, sustains concussion

US secretary of state apparently suffering from dehydration as she recovers from stomach bug that caused her to cancel overseas trip

November 27, 2012
5:40 am

US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Susan Rice’s star rises as congressional opposition dims

Republican opposition eases for candidate to replace Hilary Clinton as secretary of state

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

November 2, 2012
3:58 am

A man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. (photo credit: Ibrahim Alaguri/AP)

Most troops arrived after Benghazi attack ended, Pentagon says

‘Entire US government was operating from a cold start,’ press secretary adds

By Lolita C. Baldor

October 28, 2012
1:43 am

A Libyan man explains that the bloodstains on the column are from one of the American staff members who grabbed the edge of the column while he was evacuated, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Libyan witnesses describe planned attack on US consulate

Outrage over anti-Islam film was used as convenient cover, expert says, as officials struggle to unpack assault on Benghazi property

By Maggie Michael. Paul Schemm

October 25, 2012
12:25 am

A Libyan man walks through the rubble of the damaged US Consulate in Benghazi after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

White House told of nature of Libya terror attack within two hours, email shows

Press secretary says communique represents just one piece of information the administration was receiving in the immediate wake of the attack

By Larry Margasak

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