Libya Travel News

President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration's talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.

MISRATA, 23 May 2013 - Two years ago Syrians in the relative security of their own country watched the unfolding crisis in Libya descend into a devastating civil war.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld answers a question Tuesday night during a speech at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

Loose-knit ethnic militias form the backbone of border control in the southern regions of Libya that the government has declared under emergency law.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says Hillary Clinton is to blame for inadequate security in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died on Sept.

France will invest about 20 million euros to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya was targeted by a car bomb in April, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Following the September 11, 2012 attack on U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, the independent Benghazi Accountability Review Board issued 29 recommendations to the Department of State.

Fox News baselessly accused former U.N. Ambassador and potential National Security Adviser Susan Rice of willfully lying about the Benghazi attacks during her September 2012 Sunday news show appearances, despite it being widely reported that Rice used talking points approved by the intelligence community.

Fielding controversies ranging from the attack last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya to the targeting scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, President Obama is cultivating "a culture of cover-ups and intimidation," Sen.

Bomb explosion near three embassies in Libya SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013 03:13 PM EDT OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli.

A bomb exploded yesterday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car.

Rand Paul blasted President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their security failures in Benghazi in a Herald interview ahead of the U.S. senator from Kentucky's keynote speech to New Hampshire Republicans tomorrow that's further fueling talk he is eyeing a 2016 White House bid.

Americans have to wonder where we are left in terms of governance at the end of a horrible week for President Barack Obama that has included the surfacing of an attack by his administration on journalists of The Associated Press, partisan enforcement of tax regulations by the Internal Revenue Service and still inflammatory stirring of the embers of ... (more)

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan Tebu suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination, which stemmed in part from the failure of the semi-nomadic tribe to register under Libya's 1954 citizenship law.

A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans.

WASHINGTON - Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more detail publicly released, including a warning issued from the CIA about plans for a break-in at the U.S. Embassy in ... (more)

The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama and his aides played politics with national security following the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

If George Bush and Dick Cheney had thrown a three-legged race so a couple of make-a-wish foundation kids visiting the WH for a Fourth of July picnic could get a trophy, that would have been a scandal calling their integrity into question.

President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House Monday night after arriving from New York City where he attended two Democratic fundraisers.

At the start of the Obama administration, when I was writing about the rookie president's appalling continuation of the tradition of appointing bundlers/donors to the most glamorous embassies, I called Thomas Pickering.