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At least 27 people are found dead in the western desert of Libya near the border with Tunisia.
2023-08-9

Libya and Tunisia reopen their borders with stringent health protocol requiring travellers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and PCR tested negative, two months after the closure on July 8 due to an explosion of COVID-19 cases in the latter country.
2021-09-17

The Government of National Accord's Presidential Council says Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's threats to take military action in Libya constitutes "a declaration of war" on the country.
2020-06-21

Libyan forces claim to have captured the port in the city of Sirte after heavy fighting with ISIL.
2016-06-11

At least five die after their overcrowded, repurposed trawler capsized in the southern Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. The Italian navy rescued 562 people.
2016-05-25

The New General National Congress (Libya Dawn) which controls the capital Tripoli, and much of western Libya, threatens to send 'hundreds of thousands' of refugees to Europe unless the European Union recognizes the Islamist-led government.
2015-11-3

A bomb explodes outside the Tunisian consulate in Libya; no casualties are reported.
2012-06-26

A former Libyan envoy to the Arab League confirms that Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian-Lebanese scholar, was executed by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 1978.
2011-11-10

Family members of Libyan dissidents raise concerns about kidnapping by the current regime.
2011-03-3

Sudan announces it will close its border with Libya due to the operations of Darfur rebels in the area.
2010-06-29