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Topic: US Consulate

February 25, 2013
6:54 pm

A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli security forces during clashes next to Ofer prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 22, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian boy seriously injured in clashes with IDF

US issues travel warning for citizens traveling to the West Bank as consequence of ongoing riots

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 19, 2012
4:38 am

US envoy Chris Stevens speaking to local media in Benghazi last year. (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Review of deadly Benghazi attack finds systematic security faults

Panel cites State Department failures, says there was no protest outside US Consulate before terrorist ambush

By Matthew Lee

October 31, 2012
10:57 pm

Egyptian police arrest 15 suspected terrorists

Detainees said to have large stash of explosives

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

October 19, 2012
7:41 am

US President Barack Obama, left, sits with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, second left, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Obama, Romney poke fun at each other at charity dinner

‘I have my beautiful wife, Ann, he’s got Bill Clinton,’ says Republican challenger; US president declares, ‘Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden,’ ahead of Monday’s foreign policy debate

October 3, 2012
5:03 am

House committee claims Washington rebuffed requests for increased security at Libya consulate

American diplomats ‘were pleading with officials to reconsider’ in light of security threats, representatives say in letter to secretary of state

By Larry Margasak

September 24, 2012
12:30 am

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan (photo credit: courtesy of US Congress)

White House wrong to link consulate attack to film protests, says senior House Republican

Mike Rogers challenges Obama administration’s account of assault in Libya that killed Ambassador Stevens and staff

September 17, 2012
10:12 pm

US President Barack Obama (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Obama calls to reassure diplomats in wake of violent protests

US president tells missions in Sudan, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen that their safety is a top priority

September 17, 2012
12:29 pm

Afghan police stand by burning tires Monday in Kabul during violent protests against the anti-Islam film that ridicules the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Violent clashes erupt in 3 countries over anti-Islam film

At least one protester dead in Pakistan

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

September 15, 2012
7:10 pm

Al-Qaeda indicates responsibility for killing US envoy in Libya, urges more attacks

Assault was response to US drone strike in June that killed its Libyan-born number two, terror group says in statement

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

September 15, 2012
12:24 pm

US sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya

Investigation into attack on American Consulate in Benghazi will take more time and more people, officials say

September 14, 2012
3:27 pm

Palestinians take part in a protest against a film mocking Islam at the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Friday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians disperse after holding protests against anti-Islam film in East Jerusalem

Four arrested when hundreds try to march toward US consulate in the capital; German, UK embassies attacked in Sudan, protests in Gaza, Egypt, Jordan; protester killed in Lebanon

By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman and AP

September 14, 2012
1:37 pm

The late US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis, File)

White House denies US knew of terror threats to its diplomatic missions ahead of Libya attack

Deaths of US ambassador and staff in Libya were likely the result of an ongoing high-level security breach, American official tells British newspaper

By Yoel Goldman

September 14, 2012
8:09 am

A scene out of the controversial film 'Innocence of Muslims' (photo credit: screenshot, YouTube)

Coptic Christian, not Jew, behind anti-Muslim film

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is on probation for bank fraud and has a previous drug-related conviction

By Eileen Sullivan and Stephen Braun

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