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The Battle of Maaten al-Sarra was fought between Chad and Libya on September 5, 1987, during the Toyota War.The battle took the form of a surprise Chadian raid against the Libyan Maaten al-Sarra Air Base, meant to remove the threat of Libyan airpower, that had already thwarted the Chadian attack on the Aouzou Strip in August.
Habré quickly reacted to this setback and to the continued bombing of FANT concentrations in northern Chad. On September 5, 1987, he mounted a surprise raid against the key Libyan air base at Maaten al-Sarra. Reportedly, 1,000 Libyans were killed, 300 were captured, and hundreds of others were forced to flee into the surrounding desert.
The Maaten al-Sarra Air Base is an airbase in southernmost Libya located near the Ma'tan as-Sarra oasis in the Kufra district.It is one of the 13 military airbases in Libya. [5]
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra; N. Battle of Nelliady; Night of the Gliders; R. Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War; 1987 Rheindahlen bombing; Z.
Ma'tan as-Sarra is an oasis in the Kufra District municipality in the southeast corner of Libya. It is located in the Libyan Desert , 322 kilometres (200 mi) southwest of Kufra . A marginal oasis, with few palms and substandard water, it allowed the creation in 1811 of the last trans-Saharan caravan route .
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra; Operation Manta; N. Second Battle of N'Djamena; T. Opération Tacaud; Toyota War This page was last edited on 25 April 2024, at 05:49 ...
He led Chadian forces during the Chadian–Libyan War, such as the victory in the Battle of Maaten al-Sarra. According to military analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, Djamous was a capable commander whose mastery of maneuver warfare earned him comparisons with World War II German general Erwin Rommel. [2]
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra; 2019 Misrata airstrike; S. Battle of Saddada Castle; W. Battle of Al-Watiya Airbase; 2020 Al-Watiya airstrike This page was last edited on ...