Panel Republicans issued a joint statement calling the investigation "a great privilege and honor." The committee's chairman, Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, said the panel voted to approve the 800-page report, with seven Republicans in favor and four Democrats opposed, in a closed-door meeting. It included no major new revelations about the assault in Benghazi that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. They urged President Barack Obama's administration to clear for public release all of the supporting evidence and documents referenced in the report. The US House of Representatives' special Benghazi committee approved its report on Friday on the attack in Libya that killed four Americans in 2012, but the Republican-led panel set no date for ending its work after a two-year-long investigation.

Source: The Star July 08, 2016 18:45 UTC