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The Benghazi-based Libyan Government of National Stability says that it is suspending production at all oil fields and oil terminals that it controls until further notice amid a dispute with the central bank in Tripoli.
2024-08-26

Protesters, some armed with guns, set ablaze a House of Representatives building in Benghazi, Libya. Protests against deteriorating living conditions and corruption continue in eastern Libya for a third consecutive day.
2020-09-13

A car bomb targeting a military official in Benghazi, Libya kills one and injures two. The official survives.
2018-04-18

A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.
2018-01-23

Senior Libyan military officials say French special forces are on the ground in Benghazi helping Libyan National Army troops fight ISIL militants. They said that the French forces, along with American and British teams, are setting up an operations room inside Benina International Airport in Benina. The French defense ministry declined to comment, citing a policy not to comment on special forces' activities.
2016-02-24

Libyan police found the bodies of seven Egyptian Christians shot dead execution-style on a beach near the city of Benghazi.
2014-02-24

Bombs explode outside two police stations in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi.
2013-05-10

A car bomb detonates outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, resulting in injury to two guards and extensive damage to the embassy.
2013-04-23

Demanding the disbandment of armed groups, hundreds of demonstrators attack Ansar al-Sharia and Islamist militia compounds in Benghazi, Libya. Eleven people die in the clashes. Libyan authorities re-take control of deserted strongholds.
2012-09-22

A car bomb explodes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least one person.
2012-09-2