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At the same time, Libya began the installation of SA-5 Gammon surface-to-air missile batteries and radars they received from the Soviet Union in late 1985, to bolster their air defense. As the United States Navy had done for several years, they challenged Libya's claim to the Gulf of Sidra by crossing the so-called "Line of Death".
In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitters fired upon two U.S. F-14 Tomcats and were subsequently shot down off the Libyan coast. Libya had claimed that the entire Gulf was their territory, at 32° 30′ N, with an exclusive 62-nautical-mile (115 km; 71 mi) fishing zone, which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi asserted as "The Line of Death" in 1973. [1]
The United States did not recognize Libya's territorial claims and continued to challenge the line, leading to military hostilities in August 1981 and March 1986. A terrorist attack in Germany which killed two American soldiers and one Turkish civilian on 5 April 1986 was linked to Libya and prompted the U.S. to carry out retaliatory air ...
U.S. intervention in Libya (2015–2019) Aouzou, Chad; List of armed groups in the Libyan civil war (2014–2020) B. ... Line of Death; List of conflicts in Libya;
Officials in the port city believe that the final death toll could reach 20,000. Libya’s Red Cresent said that 11,300 people had been confirmed as dead in the disaster, driven by the collapse of ...
The Tripoli-based government of western Libya sent a plane with 14 tons of medical supplies and health workers to Benghazi. It also said it had allocated the equivalent of $412m for reconstruction ...
But Libyan authorities on Sunday disputed this figure, with the health ministry of Libya’s eastern government reporting that it had documented 3,252 deaths in Derna so far and that the UN toll ...
Estimates of the total number of deaths vary substantially, [15] and range between 20,000 and 100,000. [a] The total population of Cyrenaica declined by around one third, [23] a decrease of approximately 83,000. [24] In addition to the deaths in the camps and during deportation, 12,000 people were executed on suspicion of being rebels in 1930 ...