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Paramilitary soldiers take positions at the U.S. Consulate after protesters stormed the building in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)

At least 22 killed and more than 120 wounded in Pakistan as protesters try to storm U.S. Consulate

By Adil Jawad and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

The U.S. Embassy, center, is seen in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia expels 2 U.S. diplomats, accusing them of ‘illegal activity’

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A bus is guided out of the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday, July 26, 2020. China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Police corral crowds as movers leave US Consulate in China

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

Turkey says US is ‘safe harbor’ for group blamed for coup

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In this file photo, people walk to the main Justice Palace in Istanbul, Wednesday, May 15, 2019, as the trial begins against Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee of the United States Consulate in Istanbul charged with espionage and attempting to overthrow the Turkish government. Mr. Topuz was convicted on June 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Mehmet Guzel)

Turkey sentences U.S. Consulate employee to more than 8 years

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing at the State Department on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. reopens consulate in Greenland amid race for Arctic supremacy

By Lauren Toms, Lauren Meier and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

CORRECTS SPELLING OF PHOTOGRAPHERS NAME People walk to the Justice Palace as a trial against Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee of the United States Consulate in Istanbul charged with espionage and attempting to overthrow the Turkish government, began in Istanbul, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Topuz, a translator and fixer for the Drug Enforcement Agency at the consulate, will have his first hearing Tuesday. He has been in pre-trial detention since October 2017. (AP Photo/Mehmet Guzel)

Turkish employee of US consulate to remain in custody

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A Honduran migrant holds up Mexican and U.S. flags as he joins a small group of migrants trying to cross the border together at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. A small group of Central American migrants marched peacefully to the border crossing in Tijuana Thursday to demand better conditions and push to enter the U.S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Explosive device detonated at U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico

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Explosive device set off at US consulate in Mexican city

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Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Iraqi official says U.S. wrong to blame Iran for rocket attacks on American consulate

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Noor Punasiya, people stand by an explosion site in Medina, Saudi Arabia, Monday, July 4, 2016. State-linked Saudi news websites reported an explosion Monday near one of Islam's holiest sites in the city of Medina, as two suicide bombers struck in different cities. (Courtesy of Noor Punasiya via AP)

Saudi Arabia names Pakistani man as suicide bomber in Jiddah

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In this Jan. 21, 2013, file photo, Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing the body of a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday, June 13, 2015, targeting an al Qaeda leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans. The Libyan government and U.S. officials said warplanes targeted and likely killed Mokhtar BelMokhtar and several others. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

U.S. targets al-Qaeda-linked leader in Libya; unclear if hit

By Sarah El Deeb and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Rep. Mike Rogers: Obvious that Benghazi security was ‘deteriorating rapidly’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Afghan security personnel assist an injured police after a suicide car bombing and a gunfight near the U.S. Consulate in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

Taliban attack at U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan leaves several dead

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Consulate in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Anti-terrorism police in Milan say the city's U.S. Consulate has been evacuated after receiving a letter containing a bomb threat. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Bomb threat evacuates U.S. Consulate in Milan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama focuses his gaze on a reporter as he responds to question regarding the criticism of UN Ambassador Susan Rice and the Benghazi, Libya attacks, during a press conference in the East Room at The White House in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

KUHNER: Obama’s power outage

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Libyan man checks out the interior of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after the attack. (Associated Press)

Benghazi, Libya, deteriorating into security nightmare

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

3 in GOP want all data on Benghazi

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Libyan military guards check one of the burned-out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2012, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and his colleagues in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. (Associated Press)

Westerners warned to leave Benghazi

By Casssandra Vinograd - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, file photo, a Libyan woman, Salwa Bugaighis, carries a wreath with a photo of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens on it as she and others gather to pay their respect to the victims of the Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate, in Benghazi, Libya. A man linked to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has been conditionally released by Tunisian authorities due to lack of evidence, his lawyer said Tuesday Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Lawyer: Tunisian suspect in Libya attack freed

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press