TEL AVIV – House Republicans investigating the Benghazi attacks wrote in their final report that questions about secretive activities in Libya related to weapons have not been satisfactorily answered by the Obama administration.
The sister of the late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not to blame for the death of her brother during the 2012 Benghazi Libya attacks which also cost three more American lives. Instead, Dr. Anne Stevens blamed the Republican-dominated Congress for “underbudgeting” the State Department.
TEL AVIV – The Pentagon provided incomplete maps of assets it says were located in areas of responsibility for the regions in and near Benghazi during and in the days following the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks at the U.S. Special Mission and nearby CIA Annex.
The director of the agency for the control of the external borders of the European Union (EU) has predicted that as many as 300,000 new migrants will be heading up from sub-Saharan Africa into Europe, most of whom will attempt
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton had faced “zero accountability” for her dereliction of duty in the Benghazi terror attack that claimed four American lives.
During a Tuesday campaign stop in presidential swing state Colorado, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to curb any damage from a newly released House Select Committee report on the September 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, telling the crowd and television cameras that there was nothing new to see and attempting to persuade Americans to “move on.”
A platoon of US Marines assigned to the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team at Rota, Spain, was held on the base’s airstrip for six hours as administration officials debated whether to send them to Benghazi in uniform or in civilian clothes, one of the Republicans serving on the House Select Committee on Benghazi told Breitbart News Tuesday.
Libya was supposed to be the “crowning jewel” of the foreign policy approach the Obama-Clinton administration was so committed to. Jordan declared that the administration’s approach was a matter of political expediency 56 days before the 2012 presidential election.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi was sabotaged by the Democrats on the committee, said committee member Rep. Michael Pompeo (R.-Kansas), a graduate of West Point and Harvard Law School, who has joined with another committee member to issue a scathing minority report on the administration’s responsibility for the US defeat on Sept. 11, 2012.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. general who has been nominated to lead the American military’s Africa Command told lawmakers he does not know if the Obama administration has a “grand strategy” in war-ravaged Libya, where U.S.-backed armed groups are fighting Islamic State jihadists.
With a reprise of warm weather, record numbers of migrants have attempted crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa into Italy this week, with more than 7,000 migrants rescued and taken to southern Italy between Thursday and Friday.
Although the Libyan unity government prematurely declared victory a few weeks ago, fierce fighting against Islamic State (ISIS) forces continues in the city of Sirte, killing more than 60 people on Tuesday alone. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has admitted to having “boots on the ground” in Libya, although their numbers and missions remain secret.
Hillary Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State “opened the Pandora’s box of radical Islam” even while she “refuses to acknowledge the threat posed by Radical Islam,” Donald Trump stated in a broad rebuke of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
One of the most painful lessons we learned from the Iraq war is that nation-building in the Middle East rarely works out as planned.
The preferred administration narrative about the Orlando terror attack, and other atrocities perpetrated in the U.S. and Europe, is that the Islamic State is desperately lashing out in its death throes.
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews stated that he doesn’t get Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy with regards to the Iraq War, Libya, and Syria on Tuesday. Matthews said, “My hit list begins with, why did we
The Italian Coast Guard announced that a total of 1,230 migrants had been rescued in the course of nine rescue operations in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday, bringing the total to more than 4,000 over the past four days.
Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack
U.S.-backed fighters in Syria converged from three sides on an Islamic State stronghold near the Turkish border Thursday, while Iraqi special forces pushed deeper into Fallujah, one of the last bastions of the militant group in western Iraq.
A gag order has been imposed on the investigation into Monday’s shooting at Jordan’s Baqa’a refugee camp, in which five people, including three intelligence officers, were killed.
In a series of rescue operations, the Italian coast guard, flanked by vessels from other European organisations, rescued more than 2,000 migrants along the coast of Libya Thursday, and subsequently took them to southern Italian port cities to be registered
After many months of concern that the military forces of Libya’s divided government would never be able to work effectively against the Islamic State, there is encouraging news that a major Libyan offensive against the ISIS stronghold of Sirte is underway.
In one of this year’s worst Mediterranean Sea disasters, more than 700 migrants were aboard a vessel that capsized off the coast of the Greek Island of Crete late Thursday, and despite rescue operations that managed to save 340 lives, hundreds are still missing.
Hillary Clinton’s big “foreign policy speech” was pretty light on foreign policy – really, what is there for the architect of the Libya disaster to say?
Contents: Thousands of refugees leave Libya for Italy, hundreds drown; Turkey’s president Erdogan tells Muslims not to use birth control; Population growth rate of Muslims and Christians
A top United Nations (UN) official has demanded European Union (EU) leaders welcome millions more migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Promising that the “biggest human migration in history” is going to fast accelerate as “young people all have
ISE-SHIMA, Japan Reuters – Britain plans to send a navy warship to help battle the smuggling of both people and arms off the coast of Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron will tell G7 leaders on Thursday. The European Union this
In the latest tragedy in the Strait of Sicily an overloaded barge carrying more than 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast Wednesday, resulting in the drowning of at least seven of the passengers.
On Thursday, the U.S. government officially added the ISIS affiliates in Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen to the list of designated terrorist organizations.
U.S. Special Forces are fighting the growing threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group in Libya.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s judgement in using solely a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State and dubbed her “the critical voice” in pushing the intervention
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held brief talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday, a day after the Egyptian leader proposed new efforts to try to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
France and Britain are preparing a UN resolution that would authorize EU ships in the Mediterranean to intercept vessels suspected of carrying weapons to Libya, diplomats said Monday. The European Union’s Operation Sophia would be tasked with enforcing a UN
Contents: Western nations agree to lift arms embargo on Libya to fight ISIS; ISIS continues to grow in Libya in size and effectiveness
A summit in Vienna produces a call for relaxing the U.N. arms embargo against Libya’s new unity government.
After nine months of “Operation Sophia”, a damning report has revealed that the naval operation David Cameron promised would “smash” the gangs smuggling migrants to Europe has not just failed but is actively helping the criminal gangs. Operating outside European
A member of a squadron at the U.S. Aviano Air Base in northeastern Italy the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans tells Fox News, “We could have been there.”
Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria
During his Breitbart News Daily appearance on Wednesday morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that his “total focus” for the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump “is on the number 38” because that is the percentage that Hillary Clinton pays men more than women at the Clinton Foundation.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has “fully closed” the entrances to its Libyan stronghold in Sirte and is keeping residents there “to use as human shields” in anticipation of a Libyan army offensive to liberate the port city.
