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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 ...
NATO announced it would enforce the UN embargo to "cut off the flow of arms and mercenaries" under the name Operation Unified Protector. [25] [26] [27] 24 March: Multiple Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched at targets during the day. [28]
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. [85] 26 March 2011: Obama addressed the nation from the White House, providing an update on the current state of the military intervention in ...
In August 2009, the mission was upgraded to Operation Ocean Shield which was a concerted effort to eradicate piracy. With no successful piracy attacks since 2012, the operation ended in 2016. [6] 27 March 2011 – 31 October 2011 Operation Unified Protector (Resolution 1973) Libya: No-fly zone; Air campaign
The 2011 Libyan Civil War began on 17 February 2011 as a civil protest and later evolved into a widespread uprising. After a military intervention led by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States (and later NATO) on 19 March turned the tide of the conflict at the Second Battle of Benghazi, anti-Gaddafi forces regrouped and established control over Misrata and most of the Nafusa ...
Unified Protector (2011) — NATO led intervention during the Libyan Civil War to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. Ellamy (2011) — British contribution to the operation Unified Protector. Harmattan (2011) — French contribution to the operation Unified Protector.
Flanked by federal, state and local law enforcement, Gov. Tate Reeves announces Operation Unified, a public safety initiative directed to get violent drug traffickers and criminals off the city ...
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