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
The Coast Guard of Libya stops nearly 400 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in five boats in the past two days, according to the office for migrants of the United Nations. 2020-05-25
Migrant rescue ship MV "Ocean Viking" is granted permission to dock by Italy and heads to Taranto, carrying 176 migrants rescued at sea off the Libyan coast on Sunday. 2019-10-15
A Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) ship rescues 209 people, including 50 children, from two dinghies in distress in the Mediterranean Sea but finds 22 dead bodies, 21 women and a child, lying in a pool of fuel in the bottom of one of the boats. The dinghies were 17 miles east of Tripoli, Libya. Cause of death is unknown, though an MSF official says it could be that fumes from mixed fuel and water rendered the people unconscious. The MSF ship is expected to arrive in the Sicilian port of Trapani on Friday.2016-07-20
A prominent Libyan Zuwarah militia leader and migrant smuggler, Salah Al-Maskhout, is reportedly killed in Tripoli by Italian special forces. The EU recently approved military action against people smuggling networks operating out of Libya. 2015-09-26
Russia evacuates Libya of all Russian diplomats and their families one day after an attack on their embassy left one dead. 2013-10-3
Witnesses see Ansar al-Sharia Islamists in Benghazi evacuate their headquarters after demonstrations by thousands of Libyan people. 2012-09-21
A convoy of troops loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crosses the border with Niger arriving in Agadez. 2011-09-5
The South Korean Navy ship "Choi Young" arrives off the coast of Tripoli to evacuate South Korean citizens from Libya. 2011-03-2