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2. Egyptian–Libyan War - Wikipedia

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   Egypt promptly moved forces to its western border, and Libya responded by drawing its forces back to avoid another confrontation. [50] Gaddafi softened his rhetoric against Egypt in the following years, but actively rallied other Arab states to isolate the country and deprecate the policies of Sadat and his successor, Hosni Mubarak .

3. Egypt–Libya relations - Wikipedia

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   From 1882 Egypt was nominally independent but effectively under the control of Britain, while Italy invaded and occupied Libya in 1912. The Egypt–Libya border was the scene of see-saw battles between the British and the allied German and Italian forces during World War II, culminating in the Second Battle of El Alamein in October–November ...

4. Egyptian intervention in Libya (2015–2020) - Wikipedia

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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. In response, Egypt launched airstrikes on 16 February, that same year. After that incident ...

5. Egypt–Libya Campaign - Wikipedia

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   The Egypt–Libya Campaign is the name used by the United States military for the US contribution to the Allied Western Desert Campaign, during World War II. From 1942, U.S. forces assisted the British Empire in fighting Axis forces in Egypt and Libya .

6. Federation of Arab Republics - Wikipedia

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   ' Union of Arab Republics ') was an unsuccessful attempt by Muammar Gaddafi to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria in order to create a unified Arab state. Although approved by a referendum in each country on 1 September 1971, [1] the three countries disagreed on the specific terms of the merger. The federation lasted from 1 January 1972 to 19 ...

7. Western Desert campaign - Wikipedia

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   Cyrenaica (Libya) had been an Italian colony since the Italo-Turkish War in 1911–1912. With Tunisia, part of French North Africa, to the west, and Egypt to the east, the Italians prepared to defend both fronts through a North Africa Supreme Headquarters, under the command of the Governor-General of Italian Libya, Marshal of the Air Force, Italo Balbo.

8. Fort Capuzzo - Wikipedia

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   Fort Capuzzo (Italian: Ridotta Capuzzo) was a fort in the colony of Italian Libya, near the Libya–Egypt border, next to the Italian Frontier Wire.The Litoranea Balbo (Via Balbo) ran south from Bardia to Fort Capuzzo, 8 mi (13 km) inland, west of Sollum, then east across the Egyptian frontier to the port over the coastal escarpment.

9. 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya - Wikipedia

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   The men, who came from different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, Minya Governorate, [4] were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on 27 December 2014, and in January 2015. [5] On 15 February, a video was released showing their murder by beheading.