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6 April – In a continuation of the seesaw battle, rebels regained the outpost of al-Arbaeen, and amassed at the outskirts of Brega in preparation of another attack. [36] 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]
December 2011 Baneh clash; Battle of Bani Walid; Battle of Bayda; MV Beluga Nomination incident; First Battle of Benghazi; Second Battle of Benghazi; Bersih 2.0 rally; Battle of Bin Jawad; Boko Haram insurgency; First Battle of Brega; Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road; Second Battle of Brega; Fourth Battle of Brega
December 2011 Baneh clash; Battle of Bani Walid; Battle of Bassikounou; Battle of Bayda; Battle of Beledweyne (2011) First Battle of Benghazi; Second Battle of Benghazi; Second Battle of Bin Jawad; Battle of Bin Jawad; Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road; First Battle of Brega; Second Battle of Brega; Fourth Battle of Brega
Battle of Brega may refer to: World War II. Battle of Brega (1941), part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II; Libyan civil war. First Battle of Brega, fought on 2 March 2011; Second Battle of Brega, fought 13 to 15 March 2011; Third Battle of Brega, fought 31 March to 7 April 2011; Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road, fought 8 April to ...
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.
Third Battle of Brega Yousef Mangoush, born in Benghazi , Cyrenaica , Libya , in 1950, is a major general . [ 1 ] He was named as the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Ground Forces on 2 January 2012, [ 2 ] Mangoush served in the Libyan army under the Muammar Gaddafi government and retired in 1999 at the rank of Colonel.
They were reported to be 20 km away from Brega and the battle was back to the Brega-Ajdabiya road. [ 44 ] 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.
First Battle of Brega, fought on March 2, 2011; Second Battle of Brega, fought March 13 to 15, 2011; Third Battle of Brega, fought March 31 to April 7, 2011; Battle of Brega–Ajdabiya road, fought April 8, 2011 to July 14, 2011; Fourth Battle of Brega, fought beginning July 14, 2011