[1][2] The British Armed Forces are also helping to train Libya's National Army as part of wider cooperation on security matters.

Under Idris, Libya maintained a close relationship with the UK even after London's relations with other Arab nations soured due to the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Poor relations were reinforced by direct confrontations such as the murder of Yvonne Fletcher, the 1986 United States bombing of Libya and the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103.

Despite these setbacks, relations began to improve during the 1990s, and peaked in December 2003 when Libya announced that they would abandon their weapons of mass destruction programmes.

[9] The UK froze the Gaddafi regime's assets in the country and joined France in leading the push for military intervention against Libyan government forces.

[15] The statement also called for international military intervention in the UK, and Libyan state TV reported false claims that the British government was using Irish and Scottish mercenaries against rioters.

[16][17] In the wake of the civil war, a scandal erupted at the London School of Economics and Political Science over its ties to the Gaddafi regime.

"[2] Cameron pledged support for the new government in rebuilding Libyan infrastructure, and Gaddafi regime assets worth billions of dollars were unfrozen and handed over to the NTC.

[24] In January 2013, the UK government issued a travel warning urging British citizens to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi due to an unspecified "specific and imminent threat to westerners".

The United Kingdom suspended operations from their embassy in Tripoli on 2 August 2014 due to a rise in post-civil war violence in the city.