In the summer of 1983, GUNT forces launched an offensive against government positions in northern and eastern Chad with heavy Libyan support.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

Noman Benotman, a former Mujahideen who knew Libi, told Newsweek that during a recent trip to Tripoli, he met with a senior Libyan government official who confirmed to him that Libi had been quietly returned to Libya and was still in prison there, but suffering from tuberculosis.

As a result of the collapse of the Gaddafi government in August 2011 due to the Libyan civil war, Libya is under de facto administration of the National Transitional Council ( NTC ).

In the course of the 2011 Libyan civil war, the government severed the physical communications links between the rebel-held east and the rest of Libya.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps ( Liwa Haris al-Jamahiriya ) or Jamahiriya Guard was a Libyan paramilitary elite unit that played the role of key protection force of the government of Muammar Gaddafi, until his death in October 2011.

For the foreign relations of the current de facto Libyan government, see Foreign relations of Libya.

In May 1981, the U. S. government closed the Libyan " people's bureau " ( embassy ) in Washington, D. C. and expelled the Libyan staff in response their conduct generally violating internationally accepted standards of diplomatic behavior.

In March 1982, the U. S. government prohibited imports of Libyan crude oil into the United States

The sincerity of the good faith efforts of the Libyan government may be questionable since Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri, told a U. S. diplomat in 2009 that the Libyans were willing to host wounded Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara after a failed assassination attempt in 2009.

Starting in 2003, the Libyan government restored normal diplomatic ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, " The Libya Model ", an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides .< ref > Hirsh, Michael, ( 11 May 2006 ), < u >" The Real Libya Model "< u >, Newsweek.

The court also established a connection to the Libyan government.

The Libyan government eventually surrendered the two Lockerbie bombing suspects in 1999 for trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands and UN sanctions were suspended.

During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi ended his aid to the Christian and animist, southern-based, Sudanese People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) led by Garang and welcomed the incoming government of General Sawar Dhahab.

* On September 1, 1969, the Libyan monarchy was overthrown, and a radical, anti-Israel, anti-Western government headed by Col. Muammar al-Qadaffi took power.

In 1976, Libyan politician Muammar Gaddafi brokered a negotiation between the Philippine government and MNLF Leader Nur Misuari which led to the signing of the MNLF-GRPH Tripoli Agreement of 1976 wherein the MNLF accepted the Philippine government's offer of semi-autonomy of the regions in dispute.

In the last stages of the Troubles, during the mid-80s, the IRA smuggled a number of military flamethrowers ( supplied to them by the Libyan government ) into Northern Ireland.

" while CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said that the organization didn't receive any money from the Libyan government and also that CAIR was one of the first American organizations to call for a no-fly zone

Links to the Libyan government were particularly damaging coming seven months after the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London by Libyan agents.

In September 1984, the French and the Libyan governments announced an agreement for the mutual withdrawal of their forces from Chad.

The foundation of the following political parties has been announced since the fall of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

On 11 June 1972, Gaddafi announced that any Arab wishing to volunteer for Palestinian armed groups " can register his name at any Libyan embassy will be given adequate training for combat ".

In 1976 after a series of terror attacks by the Provisional IRA, Gaddafi announced that " the bombs which are convulsing Britain and breaking its spirit are the bombs of Libyan people.

In 1986 Libyan state television announced that Libya was training suicide squads to attack American and European interests.

Gaddafi announced that he had won a spectacular military victory over the United States and the country was officially renamed the " Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah ".

The LSE announced in a statement that it had accepted his resignation with " great regret " and that it had set up an external inquiry into the school's relationship with the Libyan regime and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, to be conducted by the former lord chief justice Harry Woolf.

On 8 April 2011, against the background of the Libyan civil war, the US Treasary department announced sanctions against him.

On 29 May 2011, along with attorney Jacques Vergès, Roland announced plans to sue French President Nicholas Sarkozy for crimes against humanity in relation to the NATO bombing campaign against the Gaddafi government as part of the 2011 Libyan civil war.

On 19 February, several days after the conflict began, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi announced the creation of a commission of inquiry into the violence, chaired by a Libyan judge, as reported on state television.

Sabha is known as the place where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced " the dawn of the era of the masses ".

On 7 October 1969 at the 24th Session of UN General Assembly, the Permanent Representative of Libya announced its intention to eliminate all foreign bases on Libyan land.

* The merger of Libya and Chad was announced in Tripoli by Libya's President Muammar al-Gaddafi, and his guest, President Goukouni Oueddei of Chad, who had taken power in December with the help of 4, 000 Libyan troops.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

Several Arab states supported Libyan territorial claims to the Strip, among the most outspoken of which was Algeria, which provided training for anti-Habré forces, although most recruits for its training programs were from Nigeria or Cameroon, recruited and flown to Algeria by Libya.

By the beginning of the 16th century the Libyan coast had minimal central authority and its harbours were havens for pirates.

On 18 February 2011, the day after the first protests that were to lead to the 2011 Libyan civil war, Libya appeared to have withdrawn all of its BGP prefix announcements from the Internet for a short period, cutting it off from the rest of the global Internet.

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

Though the Libyan army had a large amount of fighting equipment at its disposal, the vast majority was bought from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s and eventually became largely obsolete.

This and various other internal factors had seriously decayed the strength of the whole of the Libyan Armed Forces over the years and it lagged behind its major neighbours in terms of its military capabilities and real war fighting capability.

As of 2005, its commander was Hasan al-Kabir al-Gaddafi, a cousin of the former Libyan leader.

It also has sought to develop its relations with Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to Libyan involvement in several internal African disputes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.

Libyan inclinations for full-scale political union, however, have obstructed formal political collaboration because Algeria has consistently backed away from such cooperation with its unpredictable neighbour.

* The flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya during its period of use ( 1977 – 2011 ) was the only national flag consisting just of a single solid color ( green ) with no other designs or symbols.

Six years later in 1933 Dr. Ball was the first to publish a proposal for flooding the region to generate hydro power in his article " The Qattara Depression of the Libyan Dessert and the possibility of its utilisation for power-production ".

Libyan inclinations for full-scale political union, however, have obstructed formal political collaboration because Algeria has consistently backed away from such cooperation with its unpredictable neighbour.

When the trade sanctions were lifted in early 1999, Libyan Arab Airlines could rebuilt its international network, and order new aircraft from manufacturers like Airbus, Bombardier or ATR.

The city shares the same etymology " Tripolis " as its younger sister city, the Libyan capital Tripoli.

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.

On 19 September 2006, the court was asked to rule that the Libyan government and six of its agents were guilty of the 19 September 1989 destruction of UTA Flight 772.

This new state would have Constantinople as its capital: it would be the " Greece of Two Continents and Five Seas " ( Europe and Asia, and the Ionian, Aegean, Marmara, Black, and Libyan Seas, respectively ).

Personalities and groups associated with Arab nationalism include Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab Nationalist Movement, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which came to power in Syria and Iraq for some years, and its founder Michel Aflaq.