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Last month in interviews from deepest Peru, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “I take responsibility” for Benghazi. Except she hasn’t. She was conveniently out of the country for the House Foreign Affairs hearing, and Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry refuses to hold any hearings on Benghazi. Read more…

While some in Congress continue to call for an accounting of why the White House pushed out misleading information about the nature of the Benghazi attacks, others say the real question is the original one: why U.S. interests were left so vulnerable in such a chaotic part of the world. Read more…

An Iranian semi-official news agency says the country has started building a $10 billion natural gas pipeline to Syria as part of efforts to boost its energy sector that has been battered by international sanctions. Read more…

International mediation efforts gathered steam Monday as Israel bombed dozens of suspected guerrilla sites in the densely populated Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in its campaign to quell militant rocket fire menacing nearly half of Israel’s population. Read more…