Lawyers

• CIA Provided $400K Death Benefit for Benghazi Contractor's Family, and Other Families Which Member Killed in Duty Against Terrorism

  The Doherty family will receive $400,000 death benefit for Glen Doherty, who was not married when he was killed in an attack in Benghazi, 2012. The CIA unveiled its new policy, stating that it would apply the “enhanced death benefit” for surviving families of its employees killed in such duty back to 1983.

• Clinton deflects Republican criticism in marathon Benghazi hearing

  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton passed a tough political test on Thursday, calmly deflecting harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, during a testy 11-hour hearing in Congress.

• Congress' Benghazi probe not aimed at Clinton, lawmaker says

  The Republican head of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack said on Sunday he is not targeting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and such talk hurts the inquiry.

• Benghazi panel head says staffer never mentioned Clinton when fired

  A former investigator for the Republican-led U.S. House committee on Benghazi - who accused it of targeting Hillary Clinton - never expressed unhappiness about Clinton's treatment in discussions leading up to his firing, the panel's head said on Sunday.

• House Benghazi panel may have broken ethics rules: Pelosi

  A probe of the 2012 Benghazi attacks may have violated congressional ethics rules, House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday after a top Republican indicated it aimed to hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy.

• House Benghazi panel says State Deptartment to hand over documents today

  The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attacks on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, said the State Department has pledged to hand over 5,000 new pages of documents related to the incident on Tuesday.

• State Department won't say if Kerry would testify on Benghazi

  The U.S. State Department on Monday declined to say whether Secretary of State John Kerry would be willing to testify to a Republican-controlled congressional panel that is probing a 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

• Clinton friend Blumenthal testifies to Benghazi panel

  Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime ally of Hillary Clinton who was an unofficial adviser when she was U.S. Secretary of State, testified on Tuesday behind closed doors before a congressional panel probing the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

• U.S. Benghazi panel to hear from Clinton friend in private on June 16

  A U.S. congressional panel investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday said it would meet behind closed doors on June 16 to hear from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton who was an unofficial adviser while she was secretary of state.

• Clinton emails show concern about image after Benghazi

  Top aides to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed.

• House Benghazi panel subpoenas former Clinton White House aide

  Congressional investigators have issued a subpoena demanding that former Clinton White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal testify next month before the House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

• State Department sets January 2016 deadline for Clinton email release

  The State Department has proposed a mid-January deadline to finish its review and release 55,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's work emails she sent through a private server and has since turned over to the department.

• State Department turns over more documents to U.S. House panel

  A House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, has received 4,000 pages of documents from the State Department's official inquiry into the attack, its chairman said on Thursday.

• Libya's Benghazi, cradle of anti-Gaddafi revolt, torn by chaos that followed

  When Libyan government forces and Islamist militants battled with artillery guns right in his district, Khalil al-Barassi knew it was time to pack up. He moved his family into an abandoned schoolhouse, where they live on aid from the Red Crescent, while the city around them falls to pieces.

• Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails contain few revelations: sources

  A cache of Hillary Clinton emails expected to be made public soon contains no support for Republican accusations that Clinton was involved in efforts to downplay the role of Islamic militants in the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya, people familiar with the emails said.

• Libyan rival parliament suspends U.N.-sponsored peace talks

  A parliament set up in Libya to rival the elected assembly has suspended U.N.-sponsored peace talks because of what it called fresh violence from the country's recognized government, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

• U.N. blacklists Libya's Ansar al-Sharia, involved in Benghazi attack

  The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday blacklisted two branches of the Islamist extremist group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, which Washington says was behind the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

• Libya faces chaos as top court rejects elected assembly

  Libya's Supreme Court declared the internationally recognized parliament on Thursday as unconstitutional, in a ruling likely to fuel further chaos in the north African oil producing nation.

• Britain, France, U.S. ask U.N. to blacklist Libya's Ansar al-Sharia

  Britain, the United States and France have proposed that Islamist extremist group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya be blacklisted under the United Nations al Qaeda sanctions regime, diplomats said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

• U.S. Embassies Closed: Worldwide Shutdown of Diplomatic Bases Amid Security Concerns (Video)

  The United States will temporarily shut down its embassies and consulates around the world on Sunday as a precautionary measure over terror-related concerns, State Department officials said on Friday