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A U.S. drone targets Taliban combatants assembled for a funeral. Rules of engagement at the cemetery prevented the U.S. from taking a shot.

Kill team: Obama war chiefs widen drone death zones

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Schot, NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam, Netherlands

BERGNER: Iran’s lesson from Gadhafi’s foul end

By Jonathan Bergner

A Libyan man watches a protest against the Tripoli-based militias and supporting the new national army and the police corps in the Libyan capital Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. Thousands of protesters have gathered in Libya's capital to call on unlawful armed groups to leave the city, a week after militiamen killed more than 40 people. The head of Tripoli's local council, Al-Sadat al-Badri, told the crowd on Friday that the city will remain on strike until the capital and its surroundings are free of militias. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Libya losing its grip on security; civilians battling militants for control

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Armoured embassy SUV burning on the night of the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack at QRF villa. (Photo by Zahid Arman)

New Benghazi photos surface as questions raised whether State withheld evidence

By Christine Dolan - Washington Times Communities

Libyan rebels were armed with SA-7s to help topple dictator Moammar Gadhafi, but weapons merchants have set up large operations with no interference. (Associated Press)

Missiles flow into Syria, risk falling into hands of al Qaeda

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Army training photo by Spc. Cody A. Thompson, 40th Public Affairs Detachment.

U.S. military commandos fought in Benghazi

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: ‘We’re here to kill Americans’

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Libyans celebrate the raiding of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan military forces and police raided the brigades base in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Poll finds strong support for deeper Benghazi probe

By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

**FILE** Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

Despite Benghazi, Libyans may train with U.S. military

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo grabbed from a footage released by the Italian Navy Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, migrants receive help from two raft from the Italian Navy ship Libra, off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa Saturday, Oct.12, 2013. In recent days hundreds of migrants have drowned as smugglers' ship packed with migrants sank or capsized. The deaths have sharpened calls for a coordinated European response to the wave of asylum-seeker fleeing war and repression making their way to Libya to embark on a sea journey, mostly in rickety smugglers' boats en route to Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just 70 kilometers (50 miles) away. Despite the perils, the boats keep coming. Authorities have rescued hundreds more at sea this weekend. (AP Photo/Italian Navy HO)

Migrants say they were fired upon leaving Libya

By Stephen Calleja - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this March 13, 2013, file photo, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington. A government official says Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped by gunmen early Thursday morning, Oct. 10, 2013, from a hotel in Tripoli where he resides. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan released by gunmen

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night in January 2010. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Drone strikes plummet as U.S. seeks more human intelligence

By Guy Taylor and Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

When Mr. Obama became president in January 2009, the total federal debt stood at $10.6 trillion. This week, it hit $16.7 trillion — an increase of 57 percent. In the same time frame under President George W. Bush, total federal debt rose 38 percent. Mr. Obama is shown here speaking about the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

NAPOLITANO: The Obama administration has gone rogue

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Dozens of supporters of the militant group Ansar al-Shariah burn an American flag and shout anti-American slogans denouncing the U.S. violation of Libya's sovereignty in the abduction of Abu Anas al-Libi, in the center of Benghazi, Libya, on Oct. 7, 2013. Two days earlier, the U.S. Army's Delta Force captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al Qaeda leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (Associated Press/Mohammed el-Shaiky)

Libya demanding answers about U.S. raid

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

U.S. Navy SEALs in action. (U.S. Navy photo)

SEALs take over for drones as U.S. ups the stakes in fight against Al Qaeda

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

Libya bristles at U.S. raid that captured al Qaeda militant

By Esam Mohamed and Tony G. Gabriel - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry (center) listens to Aditya Utama Surono (left), director of Fishing and Living, a USAID-supported fishery NGO, as Indonesian Maritime and Fisheries Minister Syarif Tjitjip Soetardjo looks on during a visit to a tuna packaging factory in Bali, Indonesia, on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Pardomuan Siagian)

John Kerry: Terrorists ‘can run but they can’t hide’

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Khatab Alkene, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)

U.S. commandos raid Somalia, nab Libyan al Qaeda leader

By Abdi Guled, Jason Straziuso and Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

** FILE ** Libyan rebel fighters in downtown Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Men in vehicles topped with machineguns attack military post in Libya, killing 15 soldiers

Associated Press

Russia evacuates embassy in Libya after attack

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times