WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is actively working to reestablish a diplomatic presence in Libya, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senators Wednesday, nearly a decade after unrest in the Libyan capital forced American diplomats to withdraw.
The United States has lacked a diplomatic mission in the country since 2014, when more than 150 embassy personnel in Tripoli were evacuated under heavy military escort to neighboring Tunisia amid the budding Libyan civil war. Today, US diplomats assigned to Libya are based out of the Libya External Office in the compound of the US Embassy in Tunis.