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Libyan Civil Wars

2011–2020 North Africa Status: ended Casualties: ~50,000

NATO-backed uprising toppled Gaddafi in 2011. Second civil war 2014–20 split the country between UN-backed GNA in Tripoli and LNA in the east. Libya became a hub for weapons, migrants, and proxy conflict.

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Belligerents

  • Gaddafi regime
  • NTC/NATO
  • GNA (Tripoli)
  • LNA (Tobruk)
  • Turkey
  • UAE

Casualties

~50,000

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.