Libya and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between Angola and SFR Yugoslavia in 1955, following Lybia's independence.

[4] Several aircraft of the Libyan Jamahiriyan Air Force which were captured or used to defend Gaddafi-loyalists were made by Yugoslav aircraft-manufacturer SOKO in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[8][9][10] On August 25, 2011, Serbia officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the ruling government in Libya.

[11] However, the relations with the transitional government were strained from the very beginning of the Libyan Civil War when five Serbs were captured by Anti-Gaddafi rebels under the suspicion that they fought as mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi.

[16] On 7 November 2015 two Serbian embassy workers in Libya were kidnapped by an unknown group, as reported by theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.