Category: Libya

Sub-Saharan Africa 1953

Mau Mau Uprising

By the early 1950s the failure of native...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1963

Kenyan Independence

Due to political resistance from the white...

Eastern Mediterranean 1970

Black September

Following the Six-Day War, forces of the...

Eastern Mediterranean 1973

Yom Kippur War

During the sporadic Arab–Israeli clashes of...

Eastern Mediterranean 1973

Yom Kippur War: Israeli Counterattack

The Arab successes in the Yom Kippur War...

North America 1974

Counterculture Revolution

Outside the Americas, the US had been fighting...

Europe 1977

Cold War Rivalry in the Middle East

In 1967, Israel conquered large swathes of...

Eastern Mediterranean 1978

Operation Litani

In March 1978 Palestinians based in southern...

Europe 1982

Islamic Resurgence

To defuse tensions in the Middle East, the US...

Europe 2011

Eurozone Crisis

In 2008 a major financial crisis had broken...

Europe 2014

Crimean Crisis

The Eurozone crisis had only partially...

Europe 2014

Donbass Rebellion

Following the Russian annexation of Crimea,...

Europe 2014

Rise of Daesh

In late 2013, Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq...

Europe 2015

Syrian Civil War

Although the US and its allies moved to...