Sources: BBC
The emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, with 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions. Russia is the second country to be suspended from the council, after Libya in 2011 during the final year of Muammar Gaddafi's rule. 2022-04-7
UK Prime Minister Theresa May apologises to the family of Abdul Hakim Belhaj, accepting the fact that the UK's actions led to his rendition to Libya where he was tortured. Belhaj was detained in Thailand by US authorities in 2004. His wife accepts the apology and £500,000. 2018-05-10
After two days of questioning, influential Islamic academician and Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan is charged with the alleged rape of two women and jailed in Paris. 2018-02-2
The Egyptian Air Force strikes militant camps in eastern Libya in retaliation to the Minya attack, according to state media. 2017-05-26
Cameroonian officials order the closing of mosques and Islamic schools, and bar underage children from being at public places, following the recent strings of suicide bombings. 2015-07-26
A bomb explodes outside a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi causing extensive damage to the building but no injuries. 2013-04-27
NATO's command centre in Naples loses contact with an MQ-8 Fire Scout drone during reconnaissance operations over Libya. 2011-06-21
The Libyan opposition stronghold of Benghazi is bombed by pro-Gaddafi forces despite the declaration of a no-fly zone by the United Nations. 2011-03-19
Oil prices reach a two-year high due to uncertainty in the Middle East most notably in Libya. 2011-02-23
Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy against Islam, appeals to President Asif Ali Zardari to pardon her. 2010-11-21