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Benghazi

  • 22 Oct 2015

    Why is Hillary Clinton being quizzed again over Benghazi?

    Democratic presidential nomination front runner Hillary Clinton is due to give evidence to Congress over the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi for the second time. But why now?

  • 22 Sep 2014
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Murdered in the fight to build a democratic Libya

    18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.

  • 11 Nov 2013
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Why Libya’s revolutionaries are the greatest threat to its revolution

    Old scores are being settled in Libya as militias fight to assert their power in towns and cities across the country.

  • 28 Jul 2013

    Libya inmates recaptured after mass prison break

    Around 100 inmates are recaptured after more than 1,000 escaped during a prison riot in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, as protesters attack offices linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • 24 Jan 2013

    Libya terror fears: westerners urged to leave Benghazi

    The Foreign Office advises Britons to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately because of a “specific and imminent terrorist threat”.

  • 23 Jan 2013

    Hillary Clinton: goodbye or just see you later?

    Hillary Clinton faces tough questions over Benghazi today. But with a new poll showing she is more popular with the public than ever, will she use this momentum for a 2016 presidential bid?

  • 1 Jan 2013

    Clinton set for hospital release after treatment for clot

    Doctors expect US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to make a full recovery from a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull with her release from hospital planned after further treatment.

  • 14 Dec 2012

    Susan Rice out: where now for Obama’s foreign policy?

    Massachusetts senator John Kerry is almost certain to be nominated as America’s next secretary of state: a post he has wanted for years. Is he the right man for the job?

  • 22 Sep 2012

    Libyan protesters force Islamist militia out of Benghazi

    At least four people are killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi as military police and protesters take over militia bases.

  • 12 Sep 2012
    Lindsey Hilsum

    Will Libyans heed the warning of the ambassador’s murder?

    How will Libya respond to hardline Islamic militancy? Last month the government failed to intervene when Sufi shrines were attacked. Now the US ambassador has been murdered.

  • 12 Sep 2012

    Fury as Republicans accuse Obama over embassy attacks

    There’s fear, there’s loathing, and there’s electoral politics. Top Republicans say President Obama’s foreign policy triggered the attacks on US diplomatic staff – calling it “disgraceful”.

  • 7 Jul 2012

    Libyans excited, angry and emotional over election

    Libyans vote in the first free national elections in 60 years. While some are joyful, others storm police stations and burn ballot boxes.

  • 2 Apr 2012

    Why write a book?

    The story of Libya’s revolution demanded to be told, says Lindsey Hilsum, who has written Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution.

  • 16 Nov 2011

    British spies thwarted plot by former Libyan allies

    MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.

  • 23 Oct 2011

    Libyan ‘liberation’ declared

    Millions are expected to party through the night as Libya celebrates the official end of the war against Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.

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