Four US officials resign after a report into the events leading up the death of the US ambassador and three other Americans in Libya finds that security was “grossly inadequate”.
Matt Frei
Why did Susan Rice pull out of consideration as America’s next secretary of state? Was she too strident, too forceful – or did she simply fail to play the Machiavellian game of Washington politics?
The family of a Libyan dissident who was repatriated, imprisoned and tortured reveals that it has been offered £2m by the British government after it accepted its role in his illegal rendition.
Lindsey Hilsum
A year after Gadaffi’s capture and death, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks at the legacy of his rule and the prospects for the country since his demise.
Channel 4 News maps the new frontiers of the terror network al-Qaeda and its affiliates across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
The US state department has admitted there were NO protests outside its consulate in Benghazi in Libya before the attack that killed its ambassador and three other US personnel last month.
President Obama raises the stakes in the battle to thwart Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, telling the United Nations that time for diplomatic efforts to resolve the situation is not “unlimited”.
At least four people are killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi as military police and protesters take over militia bases.
A Californian filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic film which sparked a wave of violent protests across the world is taken in for questioning by officers.
Lindsey Hilsum
Across the Middle East, we’re witnessing an outburst of anti-American feeling. Extremists seem to be using the mobs outraged by the film as a smokescreen for planned attacks.
Matt Frei
A bad film causing anti-American riots, a murdered ambassador, presidential elections. If a screenwriter pitched a movie featuring the events of the past week it would be rejected, writes Matt Frei.
As mob attacks on US embassies spread from Libya to Yemen and Egypt, doubt is cast on the origins and motives behind the anti-Muslim film said to have triggered the violence, Channel 4 News reports.
Barack Obama pledges to work with Libya as US officials investigate whether the attack which killed the US ambassador was planned, rather than the work of a spontaneous group of militia.
Matt Frei
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
Lindsey Hilsum
How will Libya respond to hardline Islamic militancy? Last month the government failed to intervene when Sufi shrines were attacked. Now the US ambassador has been murdered.