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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 ...
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]
The international reactions to the 2011 military intervention in Libya were the responses to the military intervention in Libya by NATO and allied forces to impose a no-fly zone. The intervention was authorized by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 , approved in New York on 17 March, in response to the Libyan Civil War , though ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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.