Two hours after the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack, U.S. government officials in Washington knew that a group called Ansar al Sharia in Libya had claimed responsibility for killing four Americans in Benghazi. Sixteen months later, the State Department made the terrorist designation official.

The State Department designated multiple groups that go by the name “Ansar al Sharia” as foreign terrorist organization.

Recommended Stories

USS Spruance breaks record for longest deployed destroyer since WWII

Mills strategist calls for Fishback to leave politics over false claims about investigations

Trump visits to safe red districts are a ‘considered strategy’ to fire up low-propensity voters: Byron York