Second Gulf of Sidra offensive | |||||||
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Part of First Libyan Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
NATO command[1] |
Remnants of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Col. Hamid Hassy Mustafa Bin Dardef †[3][4] |
Muammar Gaddafi † Mansour Dhao (POW)[7] Abdel Rahman Abdel Hamid (POW)[8] | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
16,000 fighters[9] 163[10]–900[11] technicals | 1,000[10]–5,000[12] fighters | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
437 killed[13] | 236[14]-903[15] killed* | ||||||
800 civilians killed (NTC claim)[16] 2,151 civilians killed (Loyalist claim)[17][18] | |||||||
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The Second Gulf of Sidra offensive was a military operation in the First Libyan Civil War conducted by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces in August and September 2011 to take control of towns along the Gulf of Sidra in an effort to surround Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which was held by pro-Gaddafi forces. The offensive ended on 20 October, with the capture and execution of Muammar Gaddafi[19] and his son Mutassim Gaddafi, along with former defense minister Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr. The Gaddafi loyalists in the area were finally defeated when NTC fighters captured Sirte.[20][21][22]
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