U.S. evacuates embassy in Libya amid clashes

Sunday, July 27, 2014

WASHINGTON -- The United States shuttered its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighboring Tunisia under U.S. military escort as fighting intensified between rival militias.

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