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With Operation Unified Protector, NATO is involved in an internal Libyan conflict, between those seeking to depose the country's long-time national leader Muammar Gaddafi and pro-Gaddafi forces. The conflict began as a series of non-peaceful disorders, part of the broader Arab Spring movement, which Gaddafi's security services attempted to ...
25 March 2011: NATO Allied Joint Force Command in Naples took command of the no-fly zone over Libya and combined it with the ongoing arms embargo operation under the name Operation Unified Protector. [82] 26 March 2011: Obama addressed the nation from the White House, providing an update on the current state of the military intervention in ...
United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates indicated that control of the operation would be transferred to French and British authorities, or NATO, within days. [6] Libyan Forces attacked south of Benghazi 20 March: Several Storm Shadow missiles were launched by British jets. [7] Nineteen US planes conducted strike operations in Libya.
NATO announced that its Operation Unified Protector destroyed eleven tanks on 11 April, twenty-five tanks on 10 April and forty-nine since 9 April. [140] A rebel spokesman in Misrata said they saw no evidence of a ceasefire. Instead, pro-Gaddafi forces seemed to be stepping up their attack on the city, using Grad rockets for the first time.
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.
Operation Ellamy [5] was the codename for the United Kingdom participation in the 2011 military intervention in Libya. [6] The operation was part of an international coalition aimed at enforcing a Libyan no-fly zone in accordance with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 which stipulated that "all necessary measures" shall be taken to protect civilians. [7]
By the end of March, command of the coalition operations had been assumed by NATO under Operation Unified Protector. [8] The following months were characterized by a stalemate on the ground, as opposition fighters were unable to retake cities in western Libya.
NATO forces involved in Operation Unified Protector, the codename for the military intervention in Libya, participated in the Battle of Sirte in which Gaddafi was captured and killed. French and U.S. aircraft struck the convoy in which Gaddafi was traveling, leaving him wounded and forcing him to abandon his attempted flight from the besieged ...