Benghazi attack

Hillary Clinton stood her ground through a grueling 11 hours of questioning on Oct. 22 over the 2012 Benghazi attacks, parrying Republican blows at a high-stakes congressional hearing that could impact her bid for the White House.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton faces a congressional grilling on Oct. 22 over her role during and after the deadly attacks on the US mission in Benghazi, a hearing one top Democrat blasted as a "political hit job." 

Hillary Clinton did not hand over at least 15 emails from her time as secretary of state, the U.S. State Department said on June 25, undercutting her claim that the 30,000 work emails she provided from her personal server were a complete record.

A US airstrike in northern Iraq has killed an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) operative who was a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, the Pentagon said June 22.

Turkey has added Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia to its terror list following a United Nations Security Council decision taken last week.