List of wars involving Libya

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

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Tripolitanian civil war
(1790–1795)		 Karamanli Tripolitania Ottoman Tripolitania Karamanli 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)
(1825–1825)		 Tripolitania  Sardinia Defeat
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828)
(1828–1828)		 Tripolitania Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Victory
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
  • Italian Libya placed under British and French military administration
First Sudanese Civil War
(1970)		  Sudan
 Libya		 ALF
Anyanya		 Stalemate
Invasion of Uganda
(1972)[1]		  Uganda
 Libya		 Uganda FRONASA Victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Lebanese Civil War
(1976)		 Arab League ADF LF Withdrawal
  • Libyan forces essentially abandoned[2]
  • Eventual termination of ADF mandate
Egyptian–Libyan War
(1977)		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Egypt Egypt Ceasefire
Uganda–Tanzania War
(1978–1979)		 Uganda Uganda
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya		  Tanzania
Uganda UNLA
Mozambique Mozambique		 Defeat
Chadian–Libyan conflict
(1978–1987)		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya
Chad FROLINAT
Chad GUNT		 Chad FAT
Chad FAN
Chad FANT
 France
 Zaire		 Defeat
United States bombing of Libya
(1986)		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya  United States Both sides claimed victory[3]
Second Sudanese Civil War
(1986–1988)		  Sudan
Sudan Janjaweed
SSDF
Nuer White Army
SPLA-Nasir
LRA
 Libya		 South Sudan SPLA
South Sudan SPDF
SSLM
Anyanya II
Eastern Front		 Stalemate
2008 Kufra conflict
(2008)		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya Victory
First Libyan Civil War
(2011)		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libyan Government Libya NTC
 NATO

 Jordan
 Qatar
 Sweden
 United Arab Emirates

 Regime change
Second Libyan Civil War
(2014–2020)		 Libya HoR
Gaddafi loyalists
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Egypt
 United Arab Emirates
Libya GNA
Tuareg militias
Toubou Front		 Libya NSA
Shura Council (Benghazi)
Islamic State Islamic State		 Ceasefire

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History of Libya
Prehistory  
Ancient history 3200–146 BC
Roman era 146 BC – mid-7C
Islamic rule mid-7c–1510
Spanish Tripoli 1510–1530
Hospitaller Tripoli 1530–1551
Ottoman Tripolitania 1551–1911
Italian colonization:
Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica		 1911–1934
Italian Libya 1934–1943
Allied occupation 1943–1951
Kingdom of Libya 1951–1969
Libya under Muammar Gaddafi 1969–2011
First Civil War 2011
National Transitional Council 2011–2012
General National Congress 2012–2014
House of Representatives 2014–present
Second Civil War 2014–2020
Government of National Accord 2016–2021
Government of National Unity 2021–present
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See also

References
  1. Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
  2. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  3. Martel, William C. Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy, p. 162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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