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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 ...
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.
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.
The sustained assault culminated in the capture of the airbase on May 18, 2020, marking a significant advancement for forces aligned with Libya's internationally recognized government. [15] GNA forces seized the remains of 2 Mirage F1 and 1 Su-22.
The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) initially claimed that the airstrike was conducted by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar [7] but later attributed the attack to a United Arab Emirates (UAE) aircraft. In November 2019, United Nations investigators suspected that a non-Libyan Mirage 2000-9 jet had bombed the center ...
The Battle of Tripoli Airport was a major event that took place during the Second Libyan Civil War.It began on 13 July 2014 as part of a series of operations, dubbed "Libya Dawn" or " فجر ليبيا", conducted by a coalition of Islamist militias who led a coup d'état operation against the House of Representatives (Libya), following the 2014 Libyan parliamentary election, to recapture the ...