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Libyan Civil War Part of the Arab Spring Clockwise from top-left: The National Transitional Council flag is flown by anti-Gaddafi fighters in Brega on March 10, 2011; protesters in Bayda; protesters and defectors clash with Libyan soldiers in Bayda on February 17, 2011; a French rescue helicopter lands on USS Mount Whitney, at the beginning of the military intervention; remains of two Palmaria heavy howitzers of the Libyan Army, destroyed by French warplanes near Benghazi; USS Barry launches one of its Tomahawk missiles during Operation Unified Protector. Belligerents National Transitional Council
Qatar[4][5][6]
Enforcing UNSC Resolution 1973:
Minor border clashes: Tunisia
Omar El-Hariri[17] Jalal al-Digheily Abdul Fatah Younis Suleiman Mahmoud[18] Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah
Charles Bouchard[19]
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi(POW) Khamis Gaddafi Mutassim Gaddafi Saif al-Arab Gaddafi[20] Al-Saadi Gaddafi Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr Massoud Abdelhafid Mahdi al-Arabi(POW)
200,000 volunteers by war's end (NTC estimate)[22]
International Forces: Numerous air and maritime forces (see here)
The Libyan Civil War, also referred to as the Libyan Revolution[32] was a 2011 armed conflict in the North African country of Libya, fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government.[33][34] The war was preceded by protests in Zawiya, 8 August 2009 and finally ignited by protests in Benghazi beginning on Tuesday, 15 February 2011, which led to clashes with security forces that fired on the crowd.[35] The protests escalated into a rebellion that spread across the country,[36] with the forces opposing Gaddafi establishing an interim governing body, the National Transitional Council.
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