U.S. diplomatic missions have faced numerous attacks in recent years, resulting in legal and policy changes. According to DS, between January 1998 and December 2013, there were 336 attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities. Several of those attacks resulted in the deaths of U.S. personnel, destruction of U.S. facilities, or both including recent attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012, and in Ankara, Turkey, and Herat, Afghanistan, in 2013.