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List of wars involving Libya

This is a list of wars involving the State of Libya and its predecessor states.

Ottoman Tripolitania (1551-1911) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Cretan War

(1645-1699)

  Ottoman Empire   Venice

  Knights of Malta

  Papal States

  France

  Greek revolutionaries

Ottoman Victory
  • Crete conquered by the Ottoman Empire
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685)   Tripolitania

  Tunisia

  France Defeat
Maghrebi war (1699–1702)   Tripolitania

  Tunisia

  Sultanate of Morocco

  Deylik of Algiers Defeat
Siege of Tripoli (1705)   Tripolitania   Tunisia Tripolitanian Victory
Tripolitanian civil war

(1790–1795)

  Karamanli Tripolitania   Ottoman Tripolitania Karamanli Victory
Action of 16 May 1797   Tripolitania   Denmark-Norway Victory
First Barbary War

(1801–1805)

  Tripolitania   United States

  Sweden   Sicily

Peace treaty
  • The United States paying ransom
  • Tripolitania ships allowed to inspect American ships
  • Freeing prisoners of American ships
Battle of Tripoli (1825)   Tripolitania   Sardinia Defeat
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828)   Tripolitania   Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Victory
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)   tripolitania   italy defeat
Italian invasion of Libya

(1911)

  Senusiyya

  Ottoman Empire

  Italy Defeat

Colonial period (1911-1951) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
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   Italy

  Germany

Allied Victory

Libyan Kingdom (1951-1969) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Battle of Essien (1957)   Libya
  FLN 		  France Victory

Libyan Arab Republic (1969-1977) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
1969 Libyan revolution   Free Officers Movement   Kingdom of Libya Regime Change
First Sudanese Civil War

(1970)

  Sudan

  Libya

  ALF

  Anyanya

Stalemate
Invasion of Uganda

(1972)[3]

  Uganda

  Libya

  FRONASA Victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Lebanese Civil War

(1976)

  ADF   LF Withdrawal
  • Libyan forces essentially abandoned[4]
  • Eventual termination of ADF mandate

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977-2011) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Egyptian–Libyan War

(1977)

  Libya   Egypt Ceasefire
Uganda–Tanzania War

(1978–1979)

  Uganda

  Libya

  Tanzania Defeat
Chadian–Libyan conflict

(1978–1987)

  Libya   FAT Defeat
United States bombing of Libya

(1986)

  Libya   United States Both sides claimed victory[5]
Second Sudanese Civil War

(1986–1988)

  Sudan   SPLA

  Anyanya II

  Eastern Front

Stalemate
2008 Kufra conflict

(2008)

  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya   Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya Victory

State of Libya (2011-present) edit

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
First Libyan Civil War

(2011)

  Libyan Government   NTC

  NATO

Regime change
Second Libyan Civil War

(2014–2020)

  HoR
  GNA Ceasefire

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Rennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd (1970). British military administration of occupied territories in Africa during the years 1941 - 1947 (Reprint [der Ausg.] London 1948 ed.). Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-8371-4319-4.
  2. ^ ياغي, إسماعيل أحمد; شاكر, محمود (2008-10-01). تاريخ العالم الإسلامي الحديث والمعاصر : قارة إفريقية : الجزء الثاني: 1492-1980 (in Arabic). العبيكان للنشر.
  3. ^ Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  5. ^ Martel, William C. Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy, p. 162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

External links edit

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