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The Egyptian intervention in Libya has been substantial since the beginning of the Libyan civil war. The intervention started after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a video of the beheading of 21 Egyptians on 12 February 2015.
The Egyptian–Libyan War, also known as the Four Day War (Arabic: حرب الأربعة أيام, romanized: ḥarb al-ārbaʿ ʾayyām), was a short border war fought between Libya and Egypt that lasted from 21 to 24 July 1977.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya; Allied armed groups: Mercenaries (allegedly) [10] National Forces Alliance; Wagner Group [11] DShRG Rusich; Imperial Legion [12] Egypt [13] [14] (from February 2015) Egyptian Army [15] Egyptian Air Force United Arab Emirates [13] (limited involvement) Union Defence Force Sudan [16] Supported by: France ...
During the Old and Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Libya to the west was not a major security concern for the Egyptian pharaohs aside of occasional raiding warfare.The situation appears to have changed under the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, as the Egyptian military invested more resources in securing the western borders of Egypt.
In ancient times, the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the armies of Alexander the Great and his Ptolemaic successors from Egypt, then Romans, Vandals, and local representatives of the Byzantine Empire ruled all or parts of Libya. The territory of modern Libya had separate histories until Roman times, as Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
In 2011, a NATO-backed uprising toppled Libya's longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, and the country has witnessed instability and unrest ever since. [12] Egyptian authorities have long expressed concern over the instability in eastern Libya spilling over into Egypt due to the rise of jihadist movements there, a region which Cairo believes to have developed into a safe transit for wanted Islamists ...
[24] The Obama administration was criticized for referring to the victims simply as Egyptian citizens rather than Christians, the express reason for their murder. [25] At dawn on 16 February, the Egyptian military conducted airstrikes on IS facilities in Libya. [5] The airstrikes targeted IS training locations and weapons stockpiles. [26]
Egyptian soldiers during a military parade in 1955. The last British combat unit left by 24 March 1956. [21] Soon afterwards, the Suez Crisis arose, known in Egypt and the Arab World as the Tripartite Aggression. Just before the Suez Crisis, politics rather than military competence was the main criterion for promotion. [22]