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After years of occasional skirmishes with Libya over Libyan territorial claims to the Gulf of Sidra, the United States contemplated a military attack to strike targets within the Libyan mainland. In March 1986, the United States, asserting the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) limit to territorial waters according to international law, sent a ...
The United States Department of State designated Ansar al-Sharia as a terrorist organization in January 2014. [24] [25] [26] Khattala was captured in Libya by United States Army Special Operations Forces, who were acting in coordination with the FBI, in June 2014. [27] Another suspect, Mustafa al-Imam, was captured in October 2017. [28] [29]
On 15 November 2015, the US launched an airstrike in Derna, Libya killing senior ISIL leader Abu Nabil al-Anbari. [54] Abu Nabil formerly led operations in Iraq alongside al-Qaeda from 2004 to 2010. [55] This marked the first time United States military action was used against ISIL outside of Syria and Iraq. This was concurrent to the Battle of ...
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The United States has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to "security conditions on the ground," a top military official said Sunday as a Libyan ...
President Barack Obama speaking on the military intervention in Libya at the National Defense University, 28 March 2011. The strategic command of Operation Odyssey Dawn was under the authority of General Carter Ham, the Combatant Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), a Unified Combatant Command of the Department of Defense.
Protest in Belgrade, Serbia on 26 March 2011 against military intervention in Libya Protest in Minneapolis, United States on 2 April 2011 against US military intervention in Libya. The military intervention was criticized, both at the time and subsequently, on a variety of grounds.
The February 17th Martyrs Brigade is a militia that was active in Libya during the first Libyan civil war and second Libyan civil war.. The name refers the 'Day of Rage' protests on February 17, 2011 against dictator Muammar Gaddafi that were met by harsh military suppression and triggered the Libyan civil war.
On January 4, 2020, the United Arab Emirates aiding the Libyan National Army launched an airstrike on a military school used by the UN-backed Government of National Accord in Tripoli, Libya. Twenty-six people were killed and thirty-three were wounded.