* 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

Gaddafi undertook a number of military adventures during the 1970s to 1980s, including the Chadian – Libyan conflict, the Libyan – Egyptian War and the first Gulf of Sidra incident.

* 1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 " Floggers " are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

Between the productive lowland agricultural zones lies the Gulf of Sidra, where along the coast a stretch of 500 km of wasteland desert extends northward to the sea.

Gulf of Sidra closing line – 32 degrees 30 minutes north.

In August 1981, in the first incident of the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan jets fired on U. S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by Libya.

Gaddafi claimed the Gulf of Sidra as his territorial water and his navy was involved in a conflict from January to March 1986.

In January 1989, there was another encounter over the Gulf of Sidra between U. S. and Libyan aircraft which resulted in the downing of two Libyan jets.

** Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 ): Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U. S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra.

* January 4 – Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1989 ): Two Libyan MiG-23 " Floggers " are engaged and shot down by 2 US Navy F-14 Tomcats.

It lies in the north of the country and borders the Gulf of Sidra.

Sirte District shares its name with the city of Sirte, the historically most important city on the Gulf of Sidra.

Category: Gulf of Sidra

World crises continued to flare and included the downing of two Libyan Su-22s by American F-14s over the Gulf of Sidra, an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iraqi nuclear reactor, two Iranian hijackings, Iranian air raids on Kuwait, and the release of American hostages in Iran.

The basis of the fictional story in the film relates to real life attacks by the United States against Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, which involved U. S. bombings in both 1981 ( see Gulf of Sidra incident ), and 1986 ( see Action in the Gulf of Sidra ).

He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

The heat of summer is tempered in the south by the winds from the Gulf of Mexico, and in the north by the elevation above the sea.

Extending from the Gulf northward for about 150 miles ( 240 km ) is the outer belt of the Coastal Plain, also called the Timber Belt, whose soil is sandy and poor, but responds well to fertilization.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

Anah, or Ana, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf.

Since 2002, Actium is linked with Preveza on the north shore of the Ambracian Gulf by the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel, or Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel ( traffic labels ).

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The Gulf News published on 30 November 2011, saying " This is the biggest drug bust of its kind in 2011 and the second big one in the last three years worldwide ," said Dr. Wadia Maalouf, International expert at the United Nation's Drug and Crime office.

Aegina (;-Aígina ) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens.

Ajaccio is served primarily by Campo dell ' Oro Airport on the east side of the Gulf of Ajaccio just north of the mouth of the Gravona River.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

At the semi-enclosed bays with major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and head of Bothnian gulf with close mouths of Lule, Tornio and Kemi, the salinity is considerably lower.

At the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia the water is no longer salty and many fresh water species live in the sea.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

The northern part of the Baltic Sea is known as the Gulf of Bothnia, of which the northernmost part is the Bay of Bothnia

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

Historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes controversially referred to as the Arabian Gulf or simply The Gulf by most Arab states, although neither of the latter two terms are recognized internationally.

Consequently in the Greek sources, the body of water that bordered this province came to be known as the Persian Gulf.

The International Maritime Bureau reports offshore waters in the Gulf of Aden are high risk for piracy ; numerous vessels, including commercial shipping and pleasure craft, have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway ; crew, passengers, and cargo are held for ransom ; the presence of several naval task forces in the Gulf of Aden and additional anti-piracy measures on the part of ship operators reduced the incidence of piracy in that body of water by more than half in 2010.

Accordingly, when La Pérouse charted most of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland " Chinese Tartary " in 1787, the body of water received the name of the Strait ( or Channel, or Gulf ) of Tartary.

They renamed Gulf of Tartary to Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, which connects the strait's main body ( formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary ) with the Amur Liman ( Amur River estuary ), in the captain's honour, Strait of Nevelskoy.

This special relationship attracted unfavourable attention since it was associated with " political contributions " ( see below ) and support for anti-democratic politics, as evidenced by papers taken from the body of a Gulf executive killed in the crash of a TWA aircraft at Cairo in 1950.

* Gulf of California, a body of water in Mexico between Baja California peninsula and the North American mainland

One theory with a wide following is that they refer collectively to the region of Lake Timsah, a salt lake north of the Gulf of Suez, and the nearest large body of water after Wadi Tumilat.

Beginning with his opposition to action in Borneo in 1965, he has contested almost every British action-arguing against action in Aden, the depopulation of Diego Garcia, the Falklands War ( especially the sinking of the General Belgrano ), the Gulf War, and action in Kosovo and Iraq, saying, " I will resist a war with every sinew in my body ".

The Gulf of California ( also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés or Vermilion Sea ; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or Mar Bermejo or Golfo de California ) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

Following the elimination of American air support, the main body of the IJA 14th Army was to land at Lingayen Gulf, while another force landed at Lamon Bay.

Leyte Gulf is a body of water immediately east of the island of Leyte in the Philippines, adjoining the Philippine Sea of the Pacific Ocean, at.

* Persian Gulf, a body of water sometimes controversially referred to as the Arabian Gulf or The Gulf by some Arab countries ( see also Persian Gulf naming dispute )

The Gulf of Tonkin (, ) is a body of water located off the northern Vietnam and southern China.

Lingayen Gulf is the most notable body of water in the region and it contains a number of islands, including the Hundred Islands National Park.

However, researchers discovered the tiny birds can increase their body mass up to double with lean mass in preparation for their Gulf crossing.