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The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers.

In a largely unnoticed speech to a think tank seven months before the Benghazi attack, a top State Department official described an unprecedented multi-million-dollar U.S. effort to secure anti-aircraft weapons in Libya after the fall of Muammar Gadhafi's regime.

This is part of a special 'People on the Move' series, highlighting the human rights violations faced by migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in every part of the world.

This Sept. 13, 2012 file photo shows a cameraman filming one of U.S. consulate burnt out offices after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept.

Ministers are set to use the controversial secret courts law in the case of a Libyan man who is suing the government over his rendition into the hands of Colonel Gaddafi's torturers.

Newly unsealed information in an RCMP search warrant document alleges that SNC-Lavalin paid nearly $6-million to the son-in-law of Tunisia's president between 2001 and 2010 to win contracts in the North African country.

But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says the men flew back to Serbia on Tuesday following months-long negotiations.

LIBYA has a more dangerous transition phase that is easily overlooked. Muammar Gaddafi's death 18 months ago has left a country in more turmoil than most opponents of Gaddafi expected.

Tomorrow will see the first court hearing in the case brought by a Gaddafi opponent against the UK Government over its part in 'rendering' him - along with his pregnant wife - to Libya in 2004.

Almost everyone with an email account would have received an email by someone claiming to be a family member of a recently toppled corrupt leader, requesting to solicit a huge stash of funds in return for a lucrative commission.

Kuwait's bourse extended sharp year-to-date gains in heavy trading on Monday, while profit-taking weighed on bourses in the United Arab Emirates and other markets were mixed.

The calls for international, by which it is essentially meant US, intervention in Syria raise some important questions about the relationship between sovereign states and the global community.

The world is worried about Syria. But the United States is more focused on Libya.

Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack.

By Gyanendra Kumar Keshri, New Delhi, May 19 : Libya's new government, formed in 2011 after four decades of Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorial rule, is keen to take India's help in the drafting of a constitution and economic rebuilding, the Libyan envoy here has said.

The attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, that captured our nation's attention continue to spur debate on the stability, or lack thereof, in the region.

In the past two weeks, the U.S. and its allies have done just about everything short of getting down on their collective knees and begging Russia to stop delivering weapons to the Syrian government.

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"In together, out together," Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende explained when asked how long his country's combat troops would stay in Afghanistan after U.S. forces leave next year.