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    Read the Latest Batch of Hillary Clinton’s Private Emails Here

    Read the latest batch of Hillary Clinton's private emails here.

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    Judge: The ‘Least Ambitious’ Bureaucrat Could Process Clinton’s Personal Emails Faster

    A judge says the "least ambitious" government worker could process Clinton's personal emails faster.

  • Journalists watch as the judges (unseen), question Seif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, broadcasted live from the western Libyan city of Zintan, from inside a room in Tripoli on June 22, 2014. Thirty-seven former Kadhafi regime officials are charged with murder, kidnapping, complicity in incitement to rape, plunder, sabotage, embezzlement of public funds and acts harmful to national unity. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA        (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Journalists watch as the judges (unseen), question Seif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, broadcasted live from the western Libyan city of Zintan, from inside a room in Tripoli on June 22, 2014. Thirty-seven former Kadhafi regime officials are charged with murder, kidnapping, complicity in incitement to rape, plunder, sabotage, embezzlement of public funds and acts harmful to national unity. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Sentenced to Death from Thousands of Miles Away

    On Tuesday, Muammar al-Qaddafi's son was sentenced to death in absentia. He's not the only one who's escaped a death sentence by not attending his own trial.

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    Judgment Day for Hissène Habré

    Twenty-five years after he fled to Senegal, Chad’s former dictator is on trial for allegedly overseeing the killing and torturing of thousands of his own people. Will his victims see justice?

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    Libya’s New Peace Deal Has a Serious Flaw

    Against all odds, the U.N. has helped Libya's factions sign a peace deal -- but a major one is refusing to sign.

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    Read the Latest Batch of Hillary Clinton’s Emails

    Read the latest batch of Hillary Clinton's emails here.

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    Clinton Is Going To Take Fire on Iraq and Benghazi from Democrats, Too

    A speech by Democratic presidential contender Martin O'Malley hints Hillary Clinton's own party will attack her on Iraq and Benghazi.

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    A Victory Over the Islamic State in Libya

    The Islamic State has been kicked out of Derna -- by another group of extremists. What's next for the beleaguered Libyan city?

  • Chadian soldiers show a flag of Aqim and weapons recovered after violent clashes with Islamist militants on March 3, 2013 in Tessalit in the Ifoghas mountains, northern Mali. Chad says its troops in northern Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist leader who masterminded an assault on an Algerian gas plant in January that left 37 foreign hostages dead.  The announcement came amid continued fighting in the mountains of northern Mali, where France on Sunday said a third French soldier had been killed since it launched operations against Islamist rebels in mid-January. AFP PHOTO / ALI KAYA        (Photo credit should read ALI KAYA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Chadian soldiers show a flag of Aqim and weapons recovered after violent clashes with Islamist militants on March 3, 2013 in Tessalit in the Ifoghas mountains, northern Mali. Chad says its troops in northern Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist leader who masterminded an assault on an Algerian gas plant in January that left 37 foreign hostages dead. The announcement came amid continued fighting in the mountains of northern Mali, where France on Sunday said a third French soldier had been killed since it launched operations against Islamist rebels in mid-January. AFP PHOTO / ALI KAYA (Photo credit should read ALI KAYA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Will the U.S. Go After Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Network?

    The reported killing of the al Qaeda mastermind in Libya has officials in Washington wondering how far to take the fight against America's enemies in North Africa.

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    Islamic State Social Policies Aren’t Exactly a Hit With Libyans

    Why Libyans under Islamic State rule aren't taking to child brides and gender segregation.

  • JAW, SOUTH SUDAN - JULY 2:  Sudanese refugees walk along the border road after crossing from North Sudan carrying their possessions July 2, 2012 in Jaw, South Sudan. Many refugees walk from four days to two weeks, fleeing the on-going conflict, to get to Yida refugee camp from the Nuba mountain region where they have no food. The Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 people as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan, with 300-600 people arriving daily. The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from Diarrhea and severe malnutrition, as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population. Most have arrive with only the clothes they are wearing. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
    JAW, SOUTH SUDAN - JULY 2: Sudanese refugees walk along the border road after crossing from North Sudan carrying their possessions July 2, 2012 in Jaw, South Sudan. Many refugees walk from four days to two weeks, fleeing the on-going conflict, to get to Yida refugee camp from the Nuba mountain region where they have no food. The Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 people as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan, with 300-600 people arriving daily. The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from Diarrhea and severe malnutrition, as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population. Most have arrive with only the clothes they are wearing. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

    U.N.’s Refugee Mission in Africa Is ‘Fighting Fires’ as Funding Falls Short

    As conflicts spiral out of control across the African continent, the U.N.'s refugee chief in Africa thinks that without funding, more refugees will link up with extremists or seek passage to Europe.

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A member of the Tunisia's national guard stops a fishing boat in the sea bordering Tunisia and Libya as they check vessels for illegal migrants trying to reach Europe on May 5, 2015 off the coast of Tunisia's southeast port of Zarzis. Already on high alert along the border because of the chaos and security problems that plague neighbouring Libya, Tunisian authorities are now faced with responding to a growing number of distress calls off the coast as increasing number of immigrants are risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean in hope of reaching Europe.  AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID        (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)
    TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KAOUTHER LARBI A member of the Tunisia's national guard stops a fishing boat in the sea bordering Tunisia and Libya as they check vessels for illegal migrants trying to reach Europe on May 5, 2015 off the coast of Tunisia's southeast port of Zarzis. Already on high alert along the border because of the chaos and security problems that plague neighbouring Libya, Tunisian authorities are now faced with responding to a growing number of distress calls off the coast as increasing number of immigrants are risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean in hope of reaching Europe. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

    Fortress Europe Shouldn’t Point Its Guns at Libya

    Proposed plans for an EU military intervention to stop people smugglers in Libya aren't just cruel -- they're dangerous.

  • Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters March 10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York. Clinton admitted Tuesday that she made a mistake in choosing for convenience not to use an official email account when she was secretary of state. But, in remarks to reporters after attending a United Nations event, she insisted that her email set-up had been properly secure and that she had turned over all professional communications to the State Department.  AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT        (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
    Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters March 10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York. Clinton admitted Tuesday that she made a mistake in choosing for convenience not to use an official email account when she was secretary of state. But, in remarks to reporters after attending a United Nations event, she insisted that her email set-up had been properly secure and that she had turned over all professional communications to the State Department. AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

    Read Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails Here

    The State Department released a tranche of Hillary Clinton's private e-mails on Friday, which include her correspondences following the 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya in her capacity as secretary of state. The first batch of 296 e-mails can be viewed here on the State Department's website.

  • Members of a brigade loyal to the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn), an alliance of Islamist-backed militias, sit on a pick up truck mounted with a machine gun on March 15, 2015 in Libya's coastal city of Sirte, which lies 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli. Rare clashes between fighters from the Islamic State group and Fajr Libya erupted on March 14, 2014 in Sirte, security and militia officials said, a month after Fajr Libya said it had sent reinforcements to the city to restore security.   AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA        (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Members of a brigade loyal to the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn), an alliance of Islamist-backed militias, sit on a pick up truck mounted with a machine gun on March 15, 2015 in Libya's coastal city of Sirte, which lies 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli. Rare clashes between fighters from the Islamic State group and Fajr Libya erupted on March 14, 2014 in Sirte, security and militia officials said, a month after Fajr Libya said it had sent reinforcements to the city to restore security. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Who’s Part of the Islamic State? Depends Whom You Ask.

    A U.S.-led coalition is grappling over how to fight the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed allies in Libya and beyond without taking its eyes off Iraq and Syria.

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    Film Depicting Prophet Mohammed That Sparked 2012 Riots Can Go Back Online

    A federal court ruled Google can post a video that caused anti-U.S. riots in 2012. Whether the tech giant does remains to be seen.

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