Prior to the ejections, a US electronic surveillance plane monitoring the event recorded the lead Libyan pilot report to his ground controller that he had fired a missile at one of the US fighters and gave no indication that the missile shot was unintended.

Fezzan was a stronghold for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi through much of the Libyan civil war, though starting in July, anti-Gaddafi forces began to gain ground, taking control of the region's largest city of Sabha in mid-to-late September.

The Libyan campaign ground to a stalemate by December 1911.

Although Italy could extend its control to almost all of the 2, 000 km of the Libyan coast between April and early August 1912, its ground forces could not venture beyond the protection of the navy's guns and were thus limited to a thin coastal strip.

* 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.

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

In response to Libya's direct intervention, French and Zairian forces intervened to defend Habré, pushing Libyan and rebel forces north of the 16th parallel.

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

Goukouni also began to rally toward Habré, and with his support Habré successfully expelled Libyan forces from most of Chadian territory.

In December 1990, with Libyan assistance and no opposition from French troops stationed in Chad, Déby ’ s forces successfully marched on N ’ Djamena.

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.

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.

The National Transitional Council ( Arabic: المجلس الوطني الانتقالي, al-majlis al-waTanī al-intiqālī ) is a body formed by anti-Gaddafi forces during the Libyan civil 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.

Because the high mobility of the desert campaigns required a considerable degree of technical and mechanical expertise, the Libyan forces were used primarily as auxiliaries, guarding military installations and prisoners.

In 2009, it emerged that a British Special Air Service team were training Libyan special forces.

The Libyan Air Force was created after the US and UK pressured then-ruling King Idris to modernise his armed forces so that they could better stand off against revolutionary regimes in the Middle East.

After US forces had left Libya in 1970, Wheelus Air Base, a previous US facility about seven miles from Tripoli, became a Libyan Air Force installation and was renamed Okba Ben Nafi Air Base.

All combat aircraft of the Libyan Air Force that were not in the rebel forces ' hands were destroyed by NATO bombings during the civil war, effectively leading to the destruction of the Libyan Air Force.

On 19 March 2011, a coalition of United Nations member states led by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States began military operations in Libyan airspace and territorial waters after the United Nations Security Council approved UNSCR 1973, ostensibly to prevent further attacks on civilians as loyalist forces closed in on Benghazi, the rebel headquarters.

* National Liberation Army ( Libya ), the armed forces of Libyan rebels during the Libyan civil war

There were reports that Leptis Magna was used as a cover for tanks and military vehicles by pro-Gaddafi forces during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

A ZU-23-2 technical used by the forces of the National Transitional Council during the Libyan civil war, in October 2011.

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.

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

Also the country had just three lawyers with not a single Libyan physician, engineer, surveyor or pharmacist in the kingdom.

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.

The English language edition of the Libyan newspaper Ennahar reported on May 10, 2009, that Al Libi had been repatriated to Libyan custody in 2006, and had recently committed suicide by hanging.

Idris had also tried to reform the military, but only half-heartedly, further frustrating young Libyan officers.

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.

In the spring of 1979, after the Arab League had extended the mandate of the Arab Deterrent Force, the Sudanese, the Saudis and the UAE troops departed Lebanon, the Libyan troops were essentially abandoned and had to find their own way home, if at all.

The Libyan Air Force had an estimated personnel strength of 22, 000 in 2005.

The Libyan Air Defence Force was part of the Air Force and had the second largest defence network in the region ( second to Egypt ).

The Libyan leader stated that he would accept the honour as an expression of gratitude from his compatriots but would retain the title of colonel because it had become an accepted and traditional part of his name.

Libyan agents who had carried out the operation from the Libyan embassy in East Germany were prosecuted by reunited Germany in the 1990s.

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 formal and final transfer of the Strip from Libya to Chad took place on 30 May, when the sides signed a joint declaration stating that the Libyan withdrawal had been effected.

Arius, a Libyan presbyter in Alexandria, had declared that although the Son was divine, he was a created being and therefore not co-essential with the Father, and " there was when he was not ," This made Jesus less than the Father, which posed soteriological challenges for the nascent doctrine of the Trinity.

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 ).

* Libyan Aegipanes ( goat-pans ), which according to Pliny the Elder lived in Libya, had human heads and torsos, and the legs and horns of goats, and were similar to the Greek god Pan.