Terrorism

Officials refute initial administration statements, saying there was "nothing unusual" outside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi before the attack.

Al Qaeda's Iraq cell has doubled the number of fighters within its ranks and the number of increasingly violent attacks against military and police targets in the year since U.S. forces left the country, according to the Pentagon. 

A quartet of Senate Republicans have set their sights on the intelligence community on Tuesday, demanding answers regarding the devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. 

A Democratic memo accuses Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) of trying to hide a fact-finding trip from Democrats.

President Obama and Mitt Romney’s campaigns on Monday sparred over foreign policy, hours before the Republican candidate was slated to deliver a major address on the issue.

The Obama campaign sought to prebut the Romney address with a new ad and memo that highlighted foreign policy missteps during the campaign to paint the candidate as unready to be commander-in-chief. Romney's staffers, meanwhile, leaked excerpts of the Republican candidate's speech vowing to “change course in the Middle East” and slammed the administration’s foreign policy.

The slain ambassador had requested a security team to remain with him after their deployment was scheduled to end.

President Obama's campaign is telling Mitt Romney to "bring it on" with his foreign policy address Monday. 

The U.N. ambassador said she "relied solely and squarely on the information the intelligence community provided" in her initial description of the attack.

American special operations forces are on the ground in Libya and neighboring countries, collecting intelligence on terror cells tied to the Sept. 11 raid on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. 

“If you take a look at those things that were found, they were all unclassified documents," a department spokeswoman said.