List of wars involving Libya

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This is a list of wars involving the State of Libya and its predecessor states.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Cretan War

(1645-1669)

Ottoman Victory
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685) Tripolitania
Tunis
Royal Standard of the King of France France French victory
Maghrebi war (1699–1702) Ottoman Tripolitania Beylik of Tunis Beylik of Tunis
Sultanate of Morocco
Regency of Tripoli
Regency of Algiers Regency of Algiers Algerian victory[2]
  • Moroccan and Tunisian forces routed[2]
  • Very minor, or no changes
Siege of Tripoli (1705)

Ottoman Tripolitania Ottoman Tripolitania

Ottoman Tunisia

Tripolitanian victory
Tripolitanian civil war

(1790–1795)

1790–1793
1793–1795
1790–1793
1793–1795
Karamanli victory
Action of 16 May 1797

Tripolitania

Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway Victory
Barbary Wars

(1801–1815)

Algiers
Tripolitania
Morocco[3](1802–1804)

United States
Sweden (1800–1802)
Sicily[4] (1801–1805)

Inconclusive
First Barbary War

(1801–1805)

Ottoman Tripolitania[5][6]
Morocco (1802)

United States
Sweden[7]
 Sicily[8][9]

Peace treaty
  • The United States paying ransom
  • Tripolitania ships allowed to inspect American ships
  • Freeing prisoners of American ships
Battle of Tripoli (1825)

Tripolitania

 Sardinia

Sardinian victory:
  • Sardinia Destroyed two tripolitanian ships
  • Tripolitanian soldiers routed
  • Peace treaty concluded[10]
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828)

Ottoman Tripolitania

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Tripolitanian victory
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)  Ottoman Empire
Senussi Order
 Italy Italian victory
Italian invasion of Libya

(1911)

Ottoman Empire
Senussi Order
Kingdom of Italy Italian victory

Colonial period (1911-1951)

Libyan Kingdom (1951-1969)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Arab Cold War
(1952-1991[c])

Arab Federation (1958)



Federation of Arab Republics
Arab Islamic Republic


United Arab States (1958–1961)

Inconclusive
Battle of Essien (1957)

Libya
Algeria FLN

France

Libyan-Algerian victory
  • French forces withdraw from the region

Libyan Arab Republic (1969-1977)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
1969 Libyan revolution Free Officers Movement Free Officers victory
First Sudanese Civil War

(1955-1972)

United KingdomEgypt Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
(1955–1956)
Sudan Republic of the Sudan
(1956–1969)
SudanSudan Democratic Republic of the Sudan
(1969–1972)
Combat support:
Uganda
(Joint operations on Ugandan territory, 1965–1969)[15]
Libya Libyan Arab Republic
(From 1969 and combat involvement at least in 1970)[16]
Non-combat support:
United Arab Republic[16][17]
Soviet Union[18][17]
United Kingdom[17][19]
China[17][19]
Yugoslavia[17][19]
East Germany[17][19]
Czechoslovakia[19]
Saudi Arabia[19]
Libya Kingdom of Libya (until 1969)[19]
Algeria[19]
United States[20]
West Germany[20]

SDF mutineers, bandits, and unaffiliated separatist militias
ALF (1965–1970)
Anyanya (from 1963)[21]
Israel (from 1969)[22][23][24]
Supported by:
Ethiopia[25][26]
Uganda (from about 1970)[25][23]
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Léopoldville[27]
Kenya[25]
France[28]

Stalemate[29]
Invasion of Uganda

(1972)[30]

 Uganda
 Libya
Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Ugandan rebels

  • People's Army
  • UPC supporters

Tanzania

Ugandan government victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Lebanese Civil War

(1976)

Arab League ADF LF Withdrawal
  • Libyan forces essentially abandoned[31]
  • Eventual termination of ADF mandate

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977-2011)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Egyptian–Libyan War

(1977)

Libya

Egypt Egypt Ceasefire
Uganda–Tanzania War

(1978–1979)

 Uganda
 Libya
 Palestine Liberation Organization
Supported by:
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia

Tanzania
 Uganda National Liberation Front Mozambique
Supported by:
Zambia
 Angola
 Ethiopia
Algeria
Tanzanian victory
Chadian–Libyan conflict

(1978–1987)

Libya

Pro-Libyan Chadian factions

Pro-Libyan Palestinian and Lebanese groups[33]

Anti-Libyan Chadian factions

  • FAT (1978–1979)
  • FAN (1978–1983)
  • FANT (1983–1987)
  • GUNT (1986–1987)

France
Inter-African Force

NFSL

Supported by:
Defeat
United States bombing of Libya

(1986)

Libya Libya

United States

Both sides claimed victory[40]
Second Sudanese Civil War

(1986–1988)

Sudan Sudan

SSDF
SPLA dissidents

Nuer White Army
Uganda Ugandan insurgents:

Iraq[d]
China[e]


Combat aid:
Libya (1986–1991)[49][50]

Non-combat aid:
Iran[51][page needed]

SPLA

SSLM
NDA
Sudanese Alliance Forces[53]
Anyanya II
Eastern Coalition
Derg (until 1987)[54]
PDR Ethiopia (1987–1988)[54]
Non-combat aid:
Libya (1983–1985)[55][56]
Israel[57]
Cuba (until 1991)[58]

Stalemate
Second Congo War (1998-2003)

Libya
DR Congo
 Chad
 Namibia
 Zimbabwe

Rwanda
 Burundi
 Uganda

Victory
2008 Kufra conflict

(2008)

Libya

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 Arab Jamahiriya



Minor border clashes:
Tunisia

Supported by:
 Egypt[63][64]

Libyan opposition/NATO victory
War against the Islamic State
(2013–present)
In multiple regions:


In Egypt


In Afghanistan

In Pakistan

Ongoing; IS militarily defeated in Iraq, Syria and Libya
  • Airstrikes on IS positions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria and Afghanistan
  • Multinational humanitarian efforts
  • Arming and supporting local ground forces
  • Millions of civilians in Iraq and Syria flee their homes, sparking a refugee crisis
  • Terrorist attacks in Paris (Jan 2015 and Nov 2015), Brussels (Mar 2016) and many other places
  • Thousands of civilians executed by IS forces in Iraq and Syria
  • IS controlled around 40% of Iraq at its peak in mid-2014[72]
  • IS controlled around 50% of Syria by late May 2015[73][74]
  • Emergence of independently-governed Kurdish regions
  • IS military defeated and lost all of its territory in Libya in December 2017[75][76]
  • Boko Haram loses territory, but its insurgency continues[77]
  • IS controlled 5.67% of Syria's land by November 2017[78] and around 3% of Iraq by October 2017[79]
  • IS loses all territory in Iraq and most territory in Syria in December 2017[80]
  • IS loses all remaining territory in Syria in March 2019[81]
Second Libyan Civil War

(2014–2020)

Libya House of Representatives (Tobruk-based)[82][83]

Wagner Group
(from 2018)
[93][94][95][96][97]
Egypt Egypt[98][99][100]
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates[98][101][102][103]
RSF[104] (from 2019)
Ba'athist Syria
(2020)[105][106][107]
Hezbollah (allegedly)[108][109]
Israel
(allegedly, denied by LNA)[110][111][112][113][114]
Iran [115]

Libya Government of National Accord (Tripoli-based) (from 2016)

Turkey (2020)[143][144][145]
Syrian opposition Syrian National Army (from 2019)[146]
Yemen Popular Resistance Committees[147][148]
Hamas (LNA claim, denied by Hamas)[149]


Libya National Salvation Government
(2014–2017)[165][166]

Support:

Islamic State
(from 2014)[175]

Support:

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(2014–2017)[182]
Shura Council of
Benghazi Revolutionaries

(2014–2017)[183][184]
Ceasefire

See also

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