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Leader of Libya from 1969 to 2011
The 2011 NATO operation that the analyses attribute to Obama’s administration helped topple Muammar Gaddafi but across Libya, catalyzing militia proliferation, state collapse, and humanitarian crises....
Congress reacted with immediate questions, legal challenges and symbolic rebukes: the White House notified Congress under the War Powers Resolution within 48 hours , members filed lawsuits and demande...
Arresting sitting or former national leaders abroad under ICC warrants, Interpol notices or universal‑jurisdiction orders is rare but not unprecedented: Omar al‑Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi were the ear...
President Obama framed the 2011 US role in Libya primarily as an urgent, limited action to from Muammar Qaddafi’s forces, stressing international legitimacy and coalition action under UN Security Coun...
Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy combined notable diplomatic —most prominently the Iran nuclear agreement and reopening relations with Cuba—with significant over crisis management in Syria and the...
Barack Obama presided over U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and operations against ISIL, generally framed as multilateral or coalition efforts and ext...
The Obama administration played a central but deliberately constrained role in the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya: it led the initial US military strikes and provided unique capabilities, framed the ...
Muammar al‑Qaddafi — commonly spelled Gaddafi — was a Libyan military officer who seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled Libya as its de facto leader for 42 years until his overthrow and death in 2011 ...
Muammar Gaddafi’s mother is consistently identified in the available reporting as Aisha (sometimes given as Aisha bint Niran), a woman with scant public biography beyond her name and tribal origins li...
The Obama administration authorized U.S. military actions in at least seven countries during his presidency, principally via drone strikes, air campaigns, special-operations deployments, and support t...
The Obama administration’s intervention in Libya in 2011 was primarily justified as a limited, international action to protect civilians from an imminent massacre by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces and to pr...
Barack Obama presided over a mix of large-scale and limited military operations that reshaped U.S. force posture: a troop surge and later drawdown in Afghanistan, a NATO-led air campaign in Libya, a m...
Barack Obama’s foreign interventions combined a marked expansion of covert air campaigns — especially drone strikes — with selective conventional actions (notably Libya and limited support to Syrian r...
The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) publicly ordered and announced an investigation into Muammar Gaddafi’s death while moving to consolidate interim authority and call for formation of a go...
The sources provided uniformly report that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison in a criminal conspiracy case, marking a historic legal outcome for a modern Fr...