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The battle commenced on 14 July, in the aftermath of the Battle of Brega-Ajdabiya road, which had largely been a long stalemate. The rebels were armed with refurbished and repaired T-72 and T-55 tanks and armoured personnel carriers as well as armed technical trucks. Three rebels were killed and 73 were wounded. [17]
CNN reported that the rebels managed to re-take 10 out of 40 kilometres of road between Brega and Ajdabiya they lost the previous day to the loyalists. [37] 7 April – During the night, the rebels brought 17 tanks to the frontline east of Brega. However, in the morning, what appeared to be NATO air-strikes hit rebel positions and destroyed ...
They were reported to be 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from Brega and the battle was back to the Brega-Ajdabiya road. [97] On 31 July, rebels said that they were planning a new offensive on Brega, which was still held and defended by 3,000 well-armed loyalists. [98] On 5 August, the rebels claimed to had captured a hill overlooking part of the ...
[16] [17] Anti-Gaddafi fighters were reported to have been advising civilians to leave the area around Brega in expectation of a second battle. [18] The Second Battle of Brega was fought on 13 March and by the morning of 14 March, rebel forces were holding the residential district and loyalist forces were holding the oil facilities.
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Brega was the location of a brief but important battle in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. On 31 March 1941, during the opening phase of Rommel's first offensive , the German Afrika Korps expelled the British from their partially prepared positions at Marsa Brega.
The Second Battle of Brega took place during the Libyan Civil War. Eleven days earlier, anti-Gaddafi forces had beaten back an attempt by loyalist forces to take the town on 2 March 2011, in the First Battle of Brega. Following that battle, rebel forces advanced along the Libyan Coastal Highway, taking the towns of Ra's Lanuf and Bin Jawad.
The first phase of confrontation followed two days after the First Battle of Brega which occurred in the town Brega, roughly 130 kilometres (81 mi) to the east of Ras Lanuf. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] After conquering the town on 4 March, the rebels pushed further west to attack Sirte but they were driven back by government forces and on 11 March ...