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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.
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. It is one of the 13 military airbases in Libya.
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.
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 ...
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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 .
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Battle of Maaten al-Sarra; 2019 Misrata airstrike; U. 1986 United States bombing of Libya; W. Battle of Al-Watiya Airbase; 2020 Al-Watiya airstrike