Sources: Reuters
Nine people are killed and 76 others are injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Bent Bayya, Wadi al Hayaa District, Libya. 2022-08-1
More than 100 migrants hijack a merchant vessel that rescued them off Libya's coast, ordering the crew to head towards Malta. Malta's military said the ship would not be allowed into its waters. 2019-03-27
Malta detains German migrant rescue boat MV "Sea Watch 3", which had been docked in Valletta for repairs, as it attempts to head into the Mediterranean Sea to rescue migrants off the Libyan coast. 2018-07-2
Italy and Malta refuse entry to a German vessel carrying 629 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya. 2018-06-10
United States Africa Command announces that a March 24 airstrike in Ubari, Libya, killed Musa Abu Dawud, who was a wanted alleged senior member of al-Qaida. 2018-03-28
A twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner Mark III light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Malta International Airport, killing all five French nationals on board. Malta officials say that the aircraft was part of a French customs surveillance operation tracing routes of illicit trafficking, of humans and drugs on Libyan coasts, and that the flight was heading for the Libyan city of Misrata. 2016-10-24
13 people are killed and 10 injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a military checkpoint near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. 2013-12-22
The father of one of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing travels to Libya to meet Abdelbaset al-Megrahi; he considers Megrahi to be innocent and calls for an inquiry. 2010-09-20
Mosta - Malta Fireworks Factory (13t'Awissu) explodes leaving one man dead.[https:--www.youtube.com-watch?v=wXP94W7r1YE&feature=related]2010-08-13
Flight recorders from Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771, which crashed in Libya on 12 May killing 103 people, suggest there was no technical failure. 2010-05-30