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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.

Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

Officials at two Libyan government ministries returned to work Sunday after nearly two weeks of protests by militia fighters, who blocked the entrances to the buildings.

Congratulations! You're in the inner circle. One of your pieces has been selected as an Editor's Choice article! Apparently, South Africa is about to re-enter the "terrorist" domain, and this time it will be Al-Qaeda, according to Cwele.

Libya is rapidly deteriorating and could fall into bloody chaos at any moment. When Ambassador Christopher Stevens, under orders from the Obama-Clinton regime, first arrived in Libya he came by boat with approximately 80 Central Intelligence Agency people and contractors.

"We had people that were getting killed , we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them, and somebody told them to stand down." "Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.

When Ambassador Christopher Stevens, under orders from the Obama-Clinton regime, first arrived in Libya he came by boat with approximately 80 Central Intelligence Agency people and contractors.

According to a revealing report in The New York Times this past week, President Barack Obama went much further than he originally planned last August, when he issued 'a red line' to the Syrian regime about its possible use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.

The best evidence of the unlamented death of the Arab Spring was the nervous response in Washington D.C. to the Syrian crossing of the Red Line.

Not so long ago, Europe restrained America. Now, it urges us toward intervention.

After catching up on coverage of the Benghazi attack over the weekend, there's something that has me very confused: why are so many journalists ignoring the fact that the Americans there were mostly CIA? Here's how The New York Times began a Benghazi story published online Sunday: "A House committee chairman vowed Sunday to seek additional ... (more)

The International Criminal Court is considering a challenge by the Libyan government in the case of two Gadhafi-era officials suspected of human rights abuses.

Try as I might, I'm really having a hard time trying to stay worked up about Benghazi months and months after the attack took place.

A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least 10 people, officials said, in one of the biggest attacks since the end of the civil war that ousted former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Ahmed Kadhaf al-Damm , cousin of slain Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, stands in the dock behind bars during his trial at the New Cairo court, on the outskirt of Cairo on May 13, 2013, on charges of attempted murder.