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
  • Crete conquered by the Ottoman Empire
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685) Ottoman Tripolitania Tripolitania

Tunisia

 France Defeat
Maghrebi war (1699–1702) Ottoman Tripolitania Tripolitania

Tunisia

Sultanate of Morocco

Deylik of Algiers Defeat
Siege of Tripoli (1705) Ottoman Tripolitania 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 United States

Sweden Sweden Sicily

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 Defeat
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828) Tripolitania Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Victory
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912) tripolitania Kingdom of Italy italy defeat
Italian invasion of Libya

(1911)

Senusiyya

 Ottoman Empire

 Italy Defeat

Colonial period (1911-1951)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
First Italo-Senussi War

(1911–1917)

Senussi  Italy

 United Kingdom

Defeat
  • Libyan resistance put down
Second Italo-Senussi War

(1923–1932)

Senussi  Italy Defeat
  • Stabilization of Italian rule in Libya
North African Campaign

(1940–1943)

 United Kingdom  Italy

 Germany

Allied Victory

Libyan Kingdom (1951-1969)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Battle of Essien (1957)  Libya
Algeria 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

 Libya

ALF

Anyanya

Stalemate
Invasion of Uganda

(1972)[3]

 Uganda

 Libya

Uganda FRONASA Victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Lebanese Civil War

(1976)

Arab League ADF LF Withdrawal
  • Libyan forces essentially abandoned[4]
  • Eventual termination of ADF mandate

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

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Egyptian–Libyan War

(1977)

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Egypt Egypt Ceasefire
Uganda–Tanzania War

(1978–1979)

Uganda Uganda

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya

 Tanzania Defeat
Chadian–Libyan conflict

(1978–1987)

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Chad FAT Defeat
United States bombing of Libya

(1986)

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya  United States Both sides claimed victory[5]
Second Sudanese Civil War

(1986–1988)

 Sudan South Sudan SPLA

Anyanya II

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 Arab Jamahiriya Libyan Government Libya NTC

 NATO

Regime change
Second Libyan Civil War

(2014–2020)

Libya HoR
Libya GNA Ceasefire

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ ياغي, إسماعيل أحمد; شاكر, محمود (2008-10-01). تاريخ العالم الإسلامي الحديث والمعاصر : قارة إفريقية : الجزء الثاني: 1492-1980 (in Arabic). العبيكان للنشر.
  3. ^ Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  5. ^ Martel, William C. Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy, p. 162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.