* Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and Prisoner of War ( POW ) in the 2011 Libyan Civil War.

It has been alleged that Charles Taylor received military training in Libya, under Ibrahim Bah, a Senegalese national, ex-Hezbollah, and Sierra Leone's RUF's General .< ref > Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun, " Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible ," < i > John Wiley & Sons </ i >, Apr 14, 2008, 320 pp. The RUF was influenced by Libyan leader Colonel Mu ' ammar al-Qadhaff's amalgam of socialist-Islamic philosophies .</ i >< ref > Raymond D. Gastil, " Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties 1997-1998 ," < i > Transaction Publishers </ i >, Jan 1, 1997, 610 pp., p. 453

Ronald Reagan is credited with increasing spending on national defense and diplomacy which contributed to the end of the Cold War, deploying U. S. Pershing II missiles in West Germany in response to the Soviet stationing of SS-20 missiles near Europe, negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF ) to substantially reduce nuclear arms and initiating negotiations with the Soviet Union for the treaty that would later be known as START I, proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a controversial plan to develop a missile defense system, re-appointing monetarists Paul Volcker and ( later ) Alan Greenspan to be chairmen of the Federal Reserve, ending the high inflation that damaged the economy under his predecessors Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, lowering tax rates significantly ( under Reagan, the top personal tax bracket dropped from 70 % to 28 % in 7 years ) and leading a major reform of the tax system, providing arms and other support to anti-communist groups such as the Contras and the mujahideen, selling arms to foreign allies such as Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq ( see Iran – Iraq War ), greatly escalating the " war on drugs " with his policies and Nancy Reagan's " Just Say No " campaign, ordering the April 14, 1986 bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U. S. servicemen, in which the Libyan government was deemed complicit, and signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which compensated victims of the Japanese American Internment during World War II.

The phrase has been used again frequently with regard to the multi-state coalition's intervention in the 2011 Libyan Civil War.

France intervened in various post-colonial conflicts, supporting former colonies ( Western Sahara War, Shaba II, Chadian – Libyan conflict, Djiboutian Civil War ...), NATO peacekeeping missions in war-torn countries ( UNPROFOR, KFOR, UNAMIR ... ) and many humanitarian missions.

* Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and Prisoner of War ( POW ) in the 2011 Libyan Civil War

Following the 1977 Libyan – Egyptian War, relations were suspended for twelve years.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

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.

The first incident occurred on 21 February 1973, during a period of tension led to the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in October that year, when Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by Israeli F-4 jets over the Sinai Peninsula.

* 1977 – End of a four day long Libyan – Egyptian War.

* 1977 – The start of the four day long Libyan – Egyptian War.

The roots of the 1951 – 2011 Libyan armed forces can be traced to the Libyan Arab Force ( popularly known as the Sanusi Army ) of World War II.

The Libyan Army suffered great losses in these conflicts, especially that of the Toyota War of 1987, largely due to poor tactics and Western aid to Chad.

In October 1978, Gaddafi sent Libyan troops to aid Idi Amin in the Uganda-Tanzania War when Amin tried to annex the northern Tanzanian province of Kagera, and Tanzania counterattacked.

The Chadian – Libyan conflict ( 1978 – 1987 ) ended in disaster for Libya in 1987 with the Toyota War.

Following the 1977 Libyan – Egyptian War, relations were suspended for twelve years.

This resulted in delay of payments owed to the mercenary troops that had served Carthage in Sicily, leading to a climate of mutual mistrust and, finally, a revolt supported by the Libyan natives, known as the Mercenary War ( 240 – 238 BC ).

* Mercenary War ( c. 240 BC ) – also called the Libyan War and the Truceless War by Polybius – was an uprising of mercenary armies formerly in the employ of Carthage, backed by Libyan settlements revolting against Carthaginian control.

Many critics ( and some supporters ) of the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq as well as the 2011 Libyan civil war, argue that oil imperialism was a major driving force behind these conflicts.

The War Powers Resolution was disregarded by President Reagan in 1981 by sending military to El Salvador, by President Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo, and by President Obama in 2011, when he did not seek congressional approval for the attack on Libyan forces, arguing that the Resolution did not apply to that action.

During its history, the IEA has intervened in oil markets three times by releasing oil stocks — in 1991 during the Gulf War, in 2005 for a month after Hurricane Katrina affected US production by releasing and most recently in 2011 to offset continued disruption to oil supplies as a result of the 2011 Libyan civil war.

The Chadian – Libyan conflict ( 1978 – 1987 ) ended in disaster for Libya following the defeat at the Battle of Maaten al-Sarra in the 1987 Toyota War.

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

* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.

* 1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.

* 2011 – Libyan protests begin.

2700 – 2200 BC ) are the earliest known recorded testimony of the Berber migration and also the earliest written documentation of Libyan history.

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (; ; born Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri, 1963 – 10 May 2009 ) was a Libyan captured and interrogated by the American and Egyptian forces.

* 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

* 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.

Modifications have occurred over the intervening years, however, and in early 1987 Libyan uniforms were similar to those worn by military personnel of a number of Middle-Eastern Arab countries.

The second Gulf of Sidra incident occurred on 4 January 1989 when two U. S. Navy F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to have been attempting to engage them, as had happened eight years prior in the first Gulf of Sidra incident, in 1981.

A further sign of a break occurred when President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Kabila signed a ceasefire accord on 18 April in Sirte, Libya, following the mediation of Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi, but both the RCD and Rwanda refused to take part.

In direct contradiction to the co-pilot's own account the Libyan government stated that the attack occurred without warning.

Constantine is believed to have exiled those who refused to accept the Nicean creed — Arius himself, the deacon Euzoios, and the Libyan bishops Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais — and also the bishops who signed the creed but refused to join in condemnation of Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea.

So some were ordered to draw stones from the stone quarries in the Arabian mountains to the Nile, and others he forced to receive the stones after they had been carried over the river in boats, and to draw them to those which are called the Libyan mountains.

Libyan radio reported that the embassy was stormed and that those in the building fired back in self-defence against " a most horrible terrorist action ".

The influence of an ideology of Arab supremacy propagated by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi began to be acted upon by Darfurians, including those identified as " Arab " and " African " people.

* Hamilcar's armies, along with those of Hannibal, reduce the rebel Libyan cities.