The outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a farewell speech to her colleagues, as she stepped down from her post on Friday. Speaking before a cheering crowd at the State Department building, Clinton thanked everyone and said she was proud to have served her country. ...
09:24 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The US Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 30, 2013
US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give a joint interview to CBS's "60 Minutes" news program that will air on Sunday, the White House said. The interview, to be conducted at the White House on Friday, comes as Clinton prepares to step down and the Senate confirmation process moves forward for US Senator John Kerry, picked by Obama as her successor. ...
08:46 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton choked up on Wednesday as she defended her handling of the September 11 attack on the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi, an event that threatens to stain her legacy and any presidential hopes she may still harbor. ...
09:36 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before key Congressional committees on January 22, on the deadly militant attack on a US Consulate in Benghazi, in which the US Ambassador to Libya and three other American were killed. Clinton's testimony before the House and Senate foreign relations committees had to be postponed due to her illness. ...
07:59 AM, Jan 09, 2013
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is resting at home in New York after being treated for a potentially dangerous blood clot in her head, plans to return to her office next week, the State Department has said. "Some of the senior staff who spoke to her about half an hour ago say that she's sounding terrific, upbeat, raring to go. She's looking forward to getting back to the...
10:58 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Washington: Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama, withdrew her name from consideration as secretary of state on Thursday in the face of what promised to be a difficult Senate confirmation battle. Rice has drawn heavy fire from Republicans for remarks she made in the aftermath of a September 11 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which...
08:34 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before a key Congressional committee on the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi in which the US Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed. "I have just received confirmation from Secretary Clinton's office that the Secretary of State will appear before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss, in an open hearing, the findings and recommendations...
10:36 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Libya: An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of protest against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. A spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia said the group had evacuated its bases in Benghazi "to preserve security in the city". In a dramatic sign of Libya's fragility, after sweeping through...
08:59 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Benghazi: Pro-government demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group in Benghazi on Friday and evicted fighters from the site in a sweep of militia bases in the Libyan city, witnesses said. Militia fighters made a stand at another heavily fortified compound across the eastern city, firing on demonstrators with heavy machine guns and wounding several people, protesters said. Ansar al-Sharia has been linked to the attack on...
10:08 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Washington: The assault on the US consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top US counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars struck the consulate on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States. US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. "They were killed in...
08:36 AM, Sep 20, 2012
An amateur video, showing a few Libyans trying to save US Ambassador Chris Stevens, after the embassy in Benghazi came under attack over the movie, has surfaced. ...
12:48 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur has confirmed that four people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on Wednesday. He added saying that three or four more people are being pursued. ...
09:41 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Condemning the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, CNN's Fareed Zakaria says the attack in a sense was directed at the government of Libya because it is an ally of the US, it is a democratically-elected government and is anti-extremist. ...
09:24 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Benghazi: The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the US ambassador, was an organised two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and US security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday. Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected...
06:19 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Washington: The US has launched a massive probe, involving several agencies including the FBI, to find out who was behind the attack on its Consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya. State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that investigation had begun and till then it would be better to refrain from speculating any possible involvement of al Qaeda or its affiliated...
01:43 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Washington: The attack that killed the US ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, may have been planned and organised in advance, US government officials said on Wednesday. The officials said there were indications that members of a militant faction calling itself Ansar al Sharia - which translates as Supporters of Islamic Law - may have been involved in organizing the attack on the US Consulate in Libya's...
06:13 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Beirut: The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday night that targeted his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said on Wednesday. "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters. Asked about the deaths, a US Embassy employee in Tripoli...
03:14 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Washington: Anti-US protests against an American-produced film which allegedly insults the Prophet Mohammed, took a violent turn in the Middle East as the US Embassy in Cairo was attacked and its consulate at Benghazi in Libya was set on fire reportedly killing one American consular official. US officials were, however, were reluctant to establish any link between the two incidents on Tuesday in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, and Benghazi, the...
07:51 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Tripoli/Benghazi: Crowds of joyful Libyans, some with tears in their eyes, parted with the legacy of Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship on Saturday as they voted in the first free national election in 60 years. But in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of last year's uprising but where many now want more autonomy from the interim government in Tripoli, protesters stormed a handful of polling stations and publicly burned hundreds of...
07:47 AM, Jul 08, 2012
