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** FILE ** An unidentified worker looks after some of the 20,000 preserved ancient Islamic manuscripts that rest in air-conditioned rooms at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2004. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

France: Mali military enters storied city of Timbuktu

By Krista Larson and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

KUHNER: Hollywood Hillary

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Libyan military guards check one of the burned-out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2012, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and his colleagues in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. (Associated Press)

Westerners warned to leave Benghazi

By Casssandra Vinograd - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Strike versus stumble

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Yemeni soldiers stand guard on the rooftop of a state security court during a trial of suspected al Qaeda militants in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Seven suspected al Qaeda members killed by drone

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Inside the Ring: CIA in Benghazi

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A truck loaded with empty coffins waits at the main entrance of the hospital where the bodies of persons killed during the hostage situation in a natural-gas plant are gathered in Ain Amenas, Algeria, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Algeria scours the Sahara for 5 missing foreigners

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Yemeni soldiers stand guard on the rooftop of a state security court during a trial of suspected al Qaeda militants in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. A Yemen security official said an explosion Sunday in the province of Bayda had killed at least 13 suspected al Qaeda militants. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen: U.S. drone strike kills 3 al Qaeda militants

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near the natural-gas plant in Ain Amenas, Algeria, in this undated photo. Algerian bomb squads on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, scoured the plant, where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage, and found "numerous" new bodies as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery. (AP Photo/Echorouk Elyaoumi)

Algeria crisis ends with one American dead, fate of others unknown

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

**FILE** This Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, seen here in April 19, 2005, is where Islamist militants raided and took hostages on Jan. 16, 2013. (Associated Press/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix)

World scrambles to learn fate of U.S. hostages in Algeria

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Statoil's chief executive officer, Helge Lund, arrives at the center in Bergen, Norway, set up for relatives of the hostages in Algeria. Algerian troops and helicopter gunships stormed the gas facility where Islamic extremists were holding foreign hostages on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Bloodshed  in Algeria  shows reach of terrorists

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Joints Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. (Associated Press)

Dempsey: France formally asks for U.S. aid in Mali

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Firefighters look for survivors at the local headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party after a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/ Emad Matti)

String of attacks across Iraq kills at least 31

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda fighters carve out own country in Mali

By Rukmini Callimachi - Associated Press

Claims of responsibility for an attack on an Algerian natural-gas field in January are tied to a group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who had been a regional commander in northwestern Africa for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (IntelCenter)

Americans  among 40  seized by  terrorists  in Algeria

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Islamist militants raided and took hostages at the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/BP)

Al-Qaeda-linked militants say they are holding 7 Americans

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

British soldiers gather next to a French army truck inside a British transport plane at a base in Evreux on Monday, part of Britain's authorization over the weekend to send two C-17 transport planes to help France get more troops to Mali. (Associated Press)

U.S. won’t pledge aid yet to French effort in Mali

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises due to heavy shelling in Taftanaz, in the Idlib province of northern Syria on Jan. 10, 2013. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels seize key air base, activists say

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Illustration Benghazi by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LYONS: The key Benghazi questions still unanswered

By Adm. James A. Lyons

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is escorted by Sergeant of Arms of the Senate Terrance Gainer, left, as he walks to a meeting with U.S. senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Specter of Benghazi drives U.S.-Afghan talks

By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press