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First Italo-Senussi War (1911–1917) Senussi Italy United Kingdom. Defeat. Libyan resistance put down; Second Italo-Senussi War (1923–1932) Senussi Italy: Defeat. Stabilization of Italian rule in Libya; North African Campaign (1940–1943) United Kingdom. Libyan Arab Force [1] [2] India Egypt Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Italy ...
List of wars involving Libya; Libyan Army (1951–2011) Libyan Air Force (1951–2011) Libyan Air Force (2011–present) Libyan National Army; Libyan Navy; Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Military history of Africa; African military systems to 1,800 C.E. African military systems 1,800 C.E. — 1,900 C.E. African military systems ...
List of wars involving Libya; 0–9. 1972 invasion of Uganda; C. Chadian Civil War (1965–1979) Chadian–Libyan War; E. Eritrean War of Independence; I.
This article lists the heads of state of Libya since the country's independence in 1951.. Libya has been in a tumultuous state since the start of the Arab Spring-related Libyan crisis in 2011; the crisis resulted in the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, amidst the First Civil War and the foreign military intervention.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had the support of a number of factions participating in the civil war. The Chadian government had the support of the French, and rival Chadian factions who united against the Libyan army. In the final Toyota war Libya was defeated. According to American sources Libya lost 7,500 men and 1.5 billion dollars in ...
Idris al-Mahdi as-Senussi (later King Idris I), Emir of Cyrenaica, led Libyan resistance to Italian occupation between the two world wars. Ilan Pappe estimates that between 1928 and 1932 the Italian military "killed half the Bedouin population (directly or through disease and starvation in camps)". [ 31 ]
Libyan War may refer to: Mercenary War (241–238 BCE) Tripolitanian civil war (1793–1795) Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) First Libyan Civil War (2011)
The Kingdom of Libya (Arabic: المملكة الليبية, romanized: Al-Mamlakah Al-Lībiyya, lit. 'Libyan Kingdom'; Italian: Regno di Libia), known as the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, was a constitutional monarchy in North Africa that came into existence upon independence on 24 December 1951 and lasted until a bloodless coup d'état on 1 September 1969.