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The Allied administration was administered by the United Kingdom in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, and by France in Fezzan.Officially Libya remained "Italian Libya" until February 1947, when Italy signed the Peace Treaty ceding all the colonies and possessions of the defeated former Italian Empire.
The foreign relations of the Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011) underwent much fluctuation and change. They were marked by severe tension with the West and by other national policies in the Middle East and Africa, including the Libyan government's financial and military support for numerous paramilitary and rebel groups.
The foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011) underwent much fluctuation and change. They were marked by severe tension with the West (especially the United States, although relations were normalised in the early 21st century prior to the 2011 civil war) and by other national policies in the Middle East and Africa, including the Libyan government's financial and military ...
Three key Libyan leaders said on Sunday they had agreed on the "necessity" of forming a new unified government that would supervise long-delayed elections. A political process to resolve more than ...
Misrata, the third-largest city in Libya, played a critical role in the uprising against the Gaddafi regime. [11] Gaddafi had launched a brutal 3-month siege on Misrata, [ 12 ] with reports emerging of indiscriminate bombing of civilian infrastructure, [ 13 ] extrajudicial killings, [ 14 ] and the targeting of medical institutions and vehicles ...
Libya's oil revenues have stoked tension for years in a country that has had little stability since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. It split in 2014 with eastern and western factions that eventually ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) said it launched air strikes against "foreign armed groups" near the border with Chad on Friday, after fighting near the area between ...
In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica. By February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya and the Allied occupation of Libya began. Tripolitania 10-lire stamp of 1950 with face of King George VI. Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan.