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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.
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 .
A map of Chad, with the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture, where the war took place. At the opening of 1987, the last year of the war, the Libyan expeditionary force was still impressive, comprising 8,000 soldiers, 300 tanks, multiple rocket launchers (rocket artillery) and regular artillery pieces, Mi-24 helicopters, and sixty combat aircraft [clarification needed].
At the beginning of 1986 the Libyans controlled all Chad north of the 16th parallel.However, when France intervened in the country in Operation Sparrowhawk and Goukouni Oueddei and his People's Armed Forces rebelled against his former supporter Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's president, the situation became critical for the Libyan army and promising for Chad's President Hissène Habré.
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