The Libyan Arab Force, also known as the known as the Sanusi Army, consisting of five infantry battalions made up of volunteers, was established to aid the British war effort. With the exception of one military engagement near to Benghazi, this force's role did not extend beyond support and gendarmerie duties.[1] It was initially known as the British Arab Force and was renamed the Cyrenaica Defence Force in March 1943.
served in the LibyanArabForce. before creating a unit known as Popski's Private Army. Shortly after Italy entered the war, a number of Libyan leaders living...
Libyan Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الليبية) is the branch of the Libyan Armed Forces responsible for aerial warfare. In 2010, before the Libyan Civil...
of the LibyanArab Jamahiriya (Arabic: القوات المسلحة للجماهيرية العربية الليبية) consisted of the Libyan Army, Libyan Air Force and the Libyan Navy and...
constitution and established the LibyanArab Republic, with the motto "freedom, socialism and unity". The name of Libya was changed several times during...
Libyan Airlines (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية الليبية; transliterated: al-Khutut al-Jawiyah al-Libiyah), formerly known as LibyanArab Airlines over several...
carried out by the Free Officers Movement, a group of Arab nationalist and Nasserist officers in the Libyan Army, which overthrew the Senussi monarchy of King...
The Libyan resistance movement was the rebel force opposing the Italian Empire during its Pacification of Libya between 1923 and 1943. The Libyan resistance...
idea of Libyan independence to the British, instead suggesting that it become a British protectorate akin to Transjordan. A LibyanArabForce, consisting...
King Idris and established the LibyanArab Republic. Under the constitution of October 1951, the federal monarchy of Libya was headed by King Idris as chief...
LibyanArab Airlines Flight 1103 was a Boeing 727-200 with 10 crew and 147 passengers on board that collided with a LARAF Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23UB on...
The Libyan National Army (LNA; Arabic: الجيش الوطني الليبي, al-jaysh al-waṭaniyy al-Lībii) or the LibyanArab Army (LAA; Arabic: الجيش العربي الليبي,...
on the British Army General List on 4 October 1940, serving in the LibyanArabForce. He commanded the unit known as "Popski's Private Army" in the Middle...
Chairman of the LibyanArab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's LibyanArab Jamahiriya from 1977...
The Libyan Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة الليبية) or the LibyanArab Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة العربية الليبية) are, in principle, the...
This is a list of wars involving the State of Libya and its predecessor states. Libyan resistance movement Rennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd...
The Free Libyan Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الليبية الحرة) was the air force of the National Transitional Council during the First Libyan Civil War...
The United Arab Emirates Air Force (UAEAF) (Arabic: القوات الجوية والدفاع الجوي الاماراتي, romanized: al-Quwwāt al-Jawiyah wa al-Defa' al-Jawiy al-ʾImārāty)...
intervention in Libya to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (UNSCR 1973), in response to events during the First Libyan Civil War. With...
The Arab Deterrent Force (ADF; Arabic: قوات الردع العربية) was an international peacekeeping force created by the Arab League in the extraordinary Riyadh...
Africa and the Arab world, and the 16th-largest in the world. Libya claims 32,000 square kilometers of southeastern Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat...
LibyanArab Airlines Flight 114 (LN 114) was a regularly scheduled civilian flight from Tripoli to Cairo, through Benghazi, that was shot down in 1973...
Air Force. During the 1977 Libyan–Egyptian War, there were some skirmishes between Libyan and Egyptian fighters. In one instance, two Libyan Air Force MiG-23MS...
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