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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2011 file photo, people stand on a tank inside a security forces compound in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Libyans are celebrating the eighth anniversary of their 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, although the intensity of the festivities is underlining the split between the country’s east and west. Hundreds of people reveled Sunday in the western cities of Tripoli, Misrata and Zawiya, where bands played and flags lined the streets. (AP Photo/Alagur, File)

Libyans, to varying degrees, celebrate 2011 uprising

By RAMI MUSA and BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

The building of the high national election commission in Tripoli, Libya after a suicide bomb, May 2, 2018.(AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

Ain Zara prison break pushes Libya to failed-state status

By Reha Fhelboom and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

Libyan police say 400 prisoners escape amid Tripoli clashes

By RAMI MUSA - Associated Press

In this undated file photo made available Sept. 25, 2011, Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya. A Lebanese security official says members of a Libyan fact-finding mission who came to Beirut to request Gadhafi's extradition for crimes committed during his father's rule, left on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, amid security concerns. Gadhafi remains in Lebanese custody after unknown captors delivered him to authorities in December. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Hannibal Gadhafi reports renew interest in Moammar Gadhafi’s children, fortune

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Dominick Chilcott, right, British ambassador in Turkey, poses for photographs with Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj, left, during a photo-op at the British Consulate after handing him an apology letter from the UK government, in Istanbul, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, allege they were detained in southeast Asia in 2004 and sent to Libya to be interrogated by the regime of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Britain acknowledged Thursday that its intelligence agents played a role in the kidnapping and torture of an opponent of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a rare admission of wrongdoing by British spies. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

UK apologizes for role in Libyans’ kidnapping and torture

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

American fighter jets are pounding Islamic State areas in Libya. The terrorist group is gaining a new foothold in the North African nation, particularly the strategically located city of Sirte. (Associated Press)

ISIS draws battle to Libya; U.S. military responds

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Defense Misrata brigade fighter Abdallah Karim watches for jihadi militants amid the destruction of his city. "I don't care," he says. "I just want the Islamic State men to be dead." (Mathieu Galtier/Special to the Washington Times)

Libya braces for chaos as ISIS retreats

By Mathier Galtier and John Dyer - Special to The Washington Times

"There will be no foreign intervention without the authorization of this government," said Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj of the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord. "This decision is an activation of Libya's role in both Islamic and international alliances to fight terrorism." (Associated Press)

Libya discord threatens to overshadow military successes against ISIS

By Reda Elhadi Fhelboom and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Sirte and other parts of Libya became destabilized after the death of Moammar Gadhafi, and President Obama acknowledged that a lack of planning after the U.S. intervention was his worst mistake. (Associated Press)

ISIS’ rise in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya catches CIA by surprise

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday said that the aftermath of the ouster of Libya's Moammar Ghadhafi informed President Obama's military decision-making on Syria. (Associated Press)

Obama learned lessons from Libya ‘mistake,’ White House says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Michigan Republican. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton’s Libya failures highlighted in ‘Architects of Disaster,’ book by Pete Hoekstra

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 28, 2015 file photo, North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae Ryong speaks at a press conference held at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons could bring a change in Pyongyang, North Korea has gone out of its way to thwart them. In a flurry of public comments since the deal, the North has been blunt - its nuclear weapons are not a bargaining chip, it is already a member of the nuclear club and if Washington wants to talk, it must recognize the North as such or put an immediate end to its hostile policies toward Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

For North Korea, Iran-style nuclear deal not an option

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

A Russian-made MiG-29 jet performs stunts outside Moscow, Aug. 21, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Islamist faction in Libya repairs Russian-made MIGs, conducts first airstrike

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this image made from video broadcast on Egyptian state television on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, a fighter jet leaves the hangar in preparation to launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television via AP video)

Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

The chairman of a special House committee created to investigate the 2012 Benghazi tragedy on Monday instructed his staff to review secretly recorded tapes and intelligence reports that detail Hillary Clinton's role in advocating and executing the war in Libya, opening the door for a possible expansion of his probe. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton Libya tapes set for House Benghazi committee review

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to face questions over whether she had an adequate plan for Libya in 2011 and whether her efforts led to the Benghazi tragedy a year later. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s Libya war push armed Benghazi rebels with suspected al Qaeda ties

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

The gap between Hillary Rodham Clinton's rhetoric warning of a Rwanda-like slaughter of civilians in Libya and the facts gathered by career intelligence staff is taking on significance as the former secretary of state prepares another bid for the White House and her national security credentials are re-examined. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton Libya war genocide narrative rejected by U.S. intelligence

By Kelly Riddell and Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Echoes of the past: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recalled the Rwanda genocide in making her case for U.S. intervention in Libya. (Associated Press Photographs)

Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

A Libyan military soldier walks past damage inside a building that was used by Islamic militias for fighting in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Libya latest Arab Spring disappointment as unrest creates terrorist safe haven

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Militia says it ‘secured’ US compound in Libya

Associated Press