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Events on Saturday 19 March 2011 1
2011NATO intervention in LibyaAirstrikes support rebel forces against GaddafiActing under a UN Security Council resolution, NATO conducted a bombing campaign against forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi to protect civilians during the Libyan Civil War. The intervention ran from March to October 2011 and was decisive in the rebels' eventual victory. It was one of the alliance's largest combat operations since Kosovo.