The Libyan revolution was a 2011 armed conflict in the Libya, fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government. The war was preceded by protests in Benghazi beginning on Tuesday, 15 February 2011, which led to clashes with security forces that fired on the crowd. The protests escalated into a rebellion that spread across the country. When the U.N. initialized a resolution which froze all of Gaddafi's assets, he agreed to a ceasefire but failed to uphold it. In August, rebel forces launched an offensive on the coast of Libya, taking back territory lost months before and capturing the capital city of Tripoli.Muammar Gaddafi was still at large until 20 October 2011, when he was captured and killed attempting to escape the city of Sirte. Though the upriaing against Gaddafi was large, loyalists are still at large and cause damage to the cause of the people daily. It's still a postive ending for the people of Libya though.
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