List of wars involving Libya
This is a list of wars involving the State of Libya and its predecessor states.
Ottoman Tripolitania (1551-1911)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Cretan War (1645-1699) | Ottoman Empire
| Venice Knights of Malta Papal States France Greek revolutionaries | Ottoman Victory
|
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685) | Tripolitania Tunisia | France | Defeat |
Maghrebi war (1699–1702) | Tripolitania Tunisia Sultanate of Morocco | Deylik of Algiers | Defeat |
Siege of Tripoli (1705) | Tripolitania | Tunisia | Tripolitanian Victory |
Tripolitanian civil war (1790–1795) | Karamanli Tripolitania | Ottoman Tripolitania | Karamanli Victory |
Action of 16 May 1797 | Tripolitania | Denmark-Norway | Victory |
First Barbary War (1801–1805) | Tripolitania | United States Sweden Sicily | Peace treaty
|
Battle of Tripoli (1825) | Tripolitania | Sardinia | Defeat |
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828) | Tripolitania | Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | Victory |
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912) | tripolitania | italy | defeat |
Italian invasion of Libya (1911) | Senusiyya | Italy | Defeat |
Colonial period (1911-1951)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
First Italo-Senussi War (1911–1917) | Senussi | Italy | Defeat
|
Second Italo-Senussi War (1923–1932) | Senussi | Italy | Defeat
|
North African Campaign (1940–1943) | United Kingdom | Italy | Allied Victory |
Libyan Kingdom (1951-1969)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Battle of Essien (1957) | Libya FLN | France | Victory |
Libyan Arab Republic (1969-1977)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
1969 Libyan revolution | Free Officers Movement | Kingdom of Libya
| Regime Change |
First Sudanese Civil War (1970) | Sudan | ALF | Stalemate
|
Invasion of Uganda (1972)[3] | Uganda | FRONASA | Victory
|
Lebanese Civil War (1976) | ADF | LF | Withdrawal
|
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977-2011)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Egyptian–Libyan War (1977) | Libya | Egypt | Ceasefire |
Uganda–Tanzania War (1978–1979) | Uganda Libya | Tanzania | Defeat
|
Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987) | Libya
| FAT | Defeat
|
United States bombing of Libya (1986) | Libya | United States | Both sides claimed victory[5]
|
Second Sudanese Civil War (1986–1988) | Sudan | SPLA Eastern Front | Stalemate
|
2008 Kufra conflict (2008) | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya | Victory |
State of Libya (2011-present)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results |
---|---|---|---|
First Libyan Civil War (2011) | Libyan Government | NTC | Regime change
|
Second Libyan Civil War (2014–2020) | HoR | GNA | Ceasefire
|
See also
References
- ^ Rennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd (1970). British military administration of occupied territories in Africa during the years 1941 - 1947 (Reprint [der Ausg.] London 1948 ed.). Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-8371-4319-4.
- ^ ياغي, إسماعيل أحمد; شاكر, محمود (2008-10-01). تاريخ العالم الإسلامي الحديث والمعاصر : قارة إفريقية : الجزء الثاني: 1492-1980 (in Arabic). العبيكان للنشر.
- ^ Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
- ^ Martel, William C. Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy, p. 162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
External links
- "Qaddafi Plays Quietly, But He's Still in the Game," The New York Times, March 17, 1991.
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Lists of wars involving African countries
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
States with limited
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Dependencies and
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other territories
- Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
- Madeira (Portugal)
- Mayotte / Réunion (France)
- Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)