Ahmad 
The Deputy Consul at the US Embassy in Tunisia, Shannon Flowers, announced that the United States has resumed providing consular services in Libya for the first time in ten years.
This announcement comes within the framework of renewed efforts to support Americans residing in Libya, as a consular team from the US Embassy in Tunisia conducted field visits to Tripoli and Benghazi during the past months.
Flowers stated in statements broadcast by the Libyan Al-Wasat TV that the consular team, in cooperation with the Foreign Service Office at the US Embassy in Libya, established temporary centers in both Tripoli and Benghazi to provide the necessary services.
Flowers indicated that the consular teams provided their services to approximately 500 US citizens holding dual citizenship, including detained Americans; without disclosing details about the conditions of the detention of these Americans and the party responsible for that.
The US Embassy in Libya was closed in July 2014, as a result of the deteriorating security situation and violent armed clashes between rival factions in Tripoli, which prompted the United States to evacuate its employees and suspend diplomatic operations.
Two years earlier, the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in September 2012.
Quantities of smuggled fuel were seized at the Ras Jedir border crossing between Libya and Tunisia