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After Benghazi Consulate Attack, What’s Next for U.S. Relations with Libya...
Outrage was the Obama Administration’s first reaction, Wednesday morning, to attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya — where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador J....
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Death and the American Ambassador: What Happened in Benghazi
The birthplace of the Libyan revolution has become the scene of an American diplomatic tragedy. Who might be behind it?
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Ambassador Chris Stevens: The American Who Loved Libya (1960-2012)
Courageous and optimistic, he knew the country he was assigned to like no other diplomat. His tragic death leaves an enormous hole in the American foreign service—and in Washington’s fitful dealings...
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Yemeni Police Clash with Protesters at U.S. Embassy
(SANAA, Yemen) — Security forces in Yemen have shot live rounds in the air and fired tear gas at a crowd of around 2,000 protesters trying to march to the U.S. Embassy in the capital Sanaa. Friday’s...
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Protests Rage in Middle East, Sparked by Anti-Islamic Film
A mysterious video produced by a group of largely unknown Islamophobes in the U.S. roiled a parallel set of Salafists (orthodox Muslims) in the Middle East and sparked attacks on U.S. diplomatic...
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What We Can Learn from the Attacks on U.S. Embassies
1. Fear of a Black Flag (or It’s the Salafists, Stupid) Ordinary Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis didn’t come across the latest insults to their religion because they spent hours trolling YouTube for...
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Can the U.S. Stop the Wave of Muslim Protests Targeting Its Embassies?
Is there anything the U.S. can do to stop the wave of often violent demonstrations across the Muslim world this week targeting its embassies and those of its allies? The short answer is no; it will...
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Must-Reads from Around the World
Arctic Competition — Arctic ice is melting at a record speed, exposing rich supplies natural resources, and, according to the New York Times, setting off competition among the world’s superpowers to...
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Despite Syria’s Bloodbath, Libya-Style Intervention Remains Unlikely
On Wednesday, Syrian National Council head Abdulbaset Sieda invoked Libya when calling for international intervention to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad. He may not have realized the extent...
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Libyans Hold Giant March Against Militias
BENGHAZI, Libya — Around 30,000 Libyans marched through the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last week’s...
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The U.N. General Assembly: 5 Political Potholes for Obama
Blink and you may miss President Barack Obama’s appearance at the annual U.N. General Assembly this week. The President plans to make the briefest visit by a U.S. President in recent memory at the...
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Why the Benghazi Consulate Attack Will Blind the U.S.
The instinct to protect U.S. spies and diplomats will mean limiting their access to human intelligence throughout the restive Middle East
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Obama at the U.N.: Solid on Principles, Vague on Policy
U.S. President Barack Obama‘s primary audience, when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, was not the gathered heads of state. Instead, he tailored his remarks to a domestic electorate...
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When the Swiss Aren’t Neutral: Chocolates and the CIA
Switzerland believes its reputation as an independent mountain-fortress and refuge is being eroded—by American meddling
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The Motive and the Means: Did al-Qaeda Stage the Benghazi Attack?
Clarification and correction appended: Oct. 2, 2012 Three weeks after the calamitous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, a former Libyan intelligence chief tells TIME that he is convinced that...
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White House Widening Covert War in North Africa
(WASHINGTON) — Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in...
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The Benghazi Consulate: Has the Crime Scene Been Contaminated?
Even as the FBI prepares to investigate the incident that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, the consulate grounds may have been left unguarded for too long
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State Dept. Extended U.S. Security Team in Libya
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya requested — and received — a four-month extension of a 16- member security team, a February request that showed just how dangerous the situation in the...
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Why Libya—and Not The Hague—Will Try Gaddafi’s Son
A hearing at the international court appears to indicate that the ICC and the Libyan government see eye-to-eye on the prosecution. But Saif’s defense cries foul
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U.S. Names New Top Diplomat to Libya
(WASHINGTON) — The new top U.S. diplomat for Libya has arrived in the county to assume temporary control of the embassy in Tripoli after last month’s deadly attack on the consulate in Benghazi that...
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