Benghazi

The anonymous Air Force member says their operation, which had crew members armed and ready to launch, claimed to be halted by the military due to issues with a refueling tanker.

The very word “Benghazi” screams politics to most people—especially in this election year. So, is it even possible to make a movie about the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that’s NOT political?

House Democrats are signaling they may quit a Republican-led committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks

The chairman investigating the attacks in Benghazi complained that he should have received emails between Hillary Clinton and a Clinton confidant long ago.

The wrangling over the U.N. draft plan came as militants from the North African nation’s Islamic State affiliate seized new territory

Hillary Clinton has repeatedly defended the legality of her actions to use exclusively a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state, citing the 55,000 pages of emails she turned over to the State Department in December as evidence of her full compliance with the Federal Records Act.

“The House has no business looking at purely personal e-mails, but by the same token, she doesn’t get to decide what is purely personal and what is public.” — House Committee chair on Benghazi:

Hillary Clinton expressed regret for exclusively using a personal email account during her tenure as secretary of state, but defended the practice as legal.

Car bombs went off outside the Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassies in the Libyan capital on Thursday, causing some damage to the long-shuttered buildings but no casualties, officials said.

At least 210 people were killed in fighting in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi since troops loyal to the country’s elected government launched an attempt to re-take the city from Islamist militias two weeks earlier, a medical official said Sunday.

Libyan army troops on Wednesday pushed into Benghazi, the first time in two months that government forces had entered the eastern city, which has been under control of Islamist militias.

Egypt’s military involvement in Libya underlines Cairo’s concerns about the threat posed by Islamic militant groups operating near the two nations’ porous border, as well as home-grown jihadis who rely on their Libyan comrades for weapons. Above all, Egypt aims to prevent these groups from linking up.

“This is a battle for Egypt not Libya,” one of the senior officials said. “Egypt was the first country in the region to warn against terrorism and it is also the first to fight it.”

A former State Department official has accused the agency of destroying documents about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi.