List of wars involving Libya

This is a list of wars involving the State of Libya and its predecessor states.

Ottoman Tripolitania (1551-1911)[edit]

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Cretan War (1645-1699)	Ottoman Empire Tripolitania Regency of Algiers Tunis	Venice Knights of Malta Papal States France Greek revolutionaries	Ottoman Victory Crete conquered by the Ottoman Empire
French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685)	Tripolitania Tunisia	France	Defeat
Maghrebi war (1699–1702)	Tripolitania Tunisia Sultanate of Morocco	Deylik of Algiers	Defeat
Siege of Tripoli (1705)	Tripolitania	Tunisia	Tripolitanian Victory
Tripolitanian civil war (1790–1795)	Karamanli Tripolitania	Ottoman Tripolitania	Karamanli Victory
Action of 16 May 1797	Tripolitania	Denmark-Norway	Victory
First Barbary War (1801–1805)	Tripolitania	United States Sweden Sicily	Peace treaty The United States paying ransom Tripolitania ships allowed to inspect American ships Freeing prisoners of American ships
Battle of Tripoli (1825)	Tripolitania	Sardinia	Defeat
Bombardment of Tripoli (1828)	Tripolitania	Kingdom of the Two Sicilies	Victory
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)	tripolitania	italy	defeat
Italian invasion of Libya (1911)	Senusiyya Ottoman Empire	Italy	Defeat Italian annexation of Libya

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
First Italo-Senussi War (1911–1917)	Senussi	Italy United Kingdom	Defeat Libyan resistance put down
Second Italo-Senussi War (1923–1932)	Senussi	Italy	Defeat Stabilization of Italian rule in Libya
North African Campaign (1940–1943)	United Kingdom Libyan Arab Force^[1]^[2] India Egypt Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa	Italy Italian Libya Germany	Allied Victory

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Battle of Essien (1957)	Libya FLN	France	Victory

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
1969 Libyan revolution	Free Officers Movement	Kingdom of Libya Cyrenaican Defence Force (CYDEF)	Regime Change
First Sudanese Civil War (1970)	Sudan Libya	ALF Anyanya	Stalemate Addis Ababa Agreement
Invasion of Uganda (1972)^[3]	Uganda Libya	FRONASA	Victory Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Lebanese Civil War (1976)	ADF Syria Saudi Arabia Sudan United Arab Emirates Libya South Yemen	LF	Withdrawal Libyan forces essentially abandoned^[4] Eventual termination of ADF mandate

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Egyptian–Libyan War (1977)	Libya	Egypt	Ceasefire
Uganda–Tanzania War (1978–1979)	Uganda Libya	Tanzania UNLA Mozambique	Defeat Overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda
Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987)	Libya FROLINAT GUNT	FAT FAN FANT France Zaire	Defeat Islamic Legion pushed out of Chad Chad gained control of the Aouzou Strip
United States bombing of Libya (1986)	Libya	United States	Both sides claimed victory^[5] Ground targets destroyed Failed Libyan Scud missile response Survival of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi 188 Libyan rockets strike the island of Lampedusa in retaliation
Second Sudanese Civil War (1986–1988)	Sudan Janjawed SSDF Nuer White Army SPLA-Nasir LRA Libya	SPLA SPDF SSLM Anyanya II Eastern Front	Stalemate Libyan withdrawal in 1988 2011 referendum and independence of the Republic of South Sudan
2008 Kufra conflict (2008)	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya	Victory

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
First Libyan Civil War (2011)	Libyan Government	NTC NATO France United Kingdom United States Belgium Canada Denmark Netherlands Norway Spain Turkey Jordan Qatar Sweden United Arab Emirates	Regime change Muammar Gaddafi killed NTC assumes interim control of Libya Post-civil war violence in Libya
Second Libyan Civil War (2014–2020)	HoR Russia Gaddafi loyalists United States United Kingdom Egypt United Arab Emirates	GNA Turkey Qatar Tuareg militias Toubou Front	Ceasefire Government of National Unity formed in 2021 Islamic State presence minimized LNA failed to capture Tripoli

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^ ياغي, إسماعيل أحمد; شاكر, محمود (2008-10-01). تاريخ العالم الإسلامي الحديث والمعاصر : قارة إفريقية : الجزء الثاني: 1492-1980 (in Arabic). العبيكان للنشر.
^ Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
^ Martel, William C. Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy, p. 162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)