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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.
Libya's new government requested that its mission be extended to the end of the year, [41] but on 27 October, the Security Council unanimously voted to end NATO's mandate for military action on 31 October. [42] It is reported that over the eight months, NATO members carried out 7,000 bombing sorties targeting Gaddafi's forces. [43]
The Government of National Stability (Arabic: حكومة الاستقرار الوطني, romanized: Ḥukūmat al-istiqrār al-waṭanī) is a provisional government of Libya based in Benghazi [1] that formed on 3 March 2022, led by Osama Hamada and supported by the House of Representatives and the Libyan National Army.
The Government of National Unity (Arabic: حكومة الوحدة الوطنية, Hukumat al Wahda al Watania) is a provisional government for Libya formed on 10 March 2021 to unify the rival Government of National Accord based in Tripoli and the Second Al-Thani Cabinet, based in Tobruk.
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.
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.
Political parties were banned in Libya from 1972 until the removal of Gaddafi's government, and all elections were nonpartisan under law. However, during the revolution, the National Transitional Council (NTC), a body formed on 27 February 2011 by anti-Gaddafi forces to act as the "political face of the revolution", made the introduction of ...
In June 2019, forces allied to Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord successfully captured Gharyan, a strategic town where military commander Khalifa Haftar and his fighters were based. According to a spokesman for GNA forces, Mustafa al-Mejii, dozens of LNA fighters under Haftar were killed, while at least 18 were taken prisoner ...