Second Gulf of Sidra offensive

Second Gulf of Sidra offensive
Part of First Libyan Civil War
Date 22 August – 20 October 2011 Location Libyan Coastal Highway Result Anti-Gaddafi Victory Anti-Gaddafi forces capture Ra's Lanuf, Bin Jawad and Nofaliya in late August Anti-Gaddafi forces start a full-scale attack on Sirte on 15 September, but are repulsed three times by 29 September[2] New opposition attack on Sirte in October that leads to the capture of the city by anti-Gaddafi forces on 20 October
Belligerents
National Transitional Council Free Libyan Military NATO command[1]	Remnants of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libyan army Paramilitary forces Gaddafi loyalism
Commanders and leaders
Col. Hamid Hassy Mustafa Bin Dardef †[3][4]	Muammar Gaddafi † Mutassim Gaddafi †[5] Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr †[6] 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]
Based largely on unconfirmed rebel and civilian claims

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. It 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]