Battle of Bayda

Battle of Bayda
Part of First Libyan Civil War
Date16–17 February 2011
Location
Bayda, Libya
Result Anti-Gaddafi victory
Belligerents
Libya Anti-Gaddafi forces Libya Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Strength
Unknown 400 mercenaries
Casualties and losses
150 killed 50 killed

The Battle of Bayda was the first conflict[1][2] that broke out during the First Libyan Civil War between the brigades of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan rebels in the 4th-largest city in the country, the city of Bayda and its suburbs.[3] The battle took place as a result of the demonstrations calling for the fall of the regime in Bayda, and after that the demonstrators clashed with the personnel of the internal security Agency in the city and the Talaa Khamis Brigade and the mercenaries and the Hussein Al-Jouifi Brigade stationed in Shahhat and Al Abraq International Airport in Bayda. The fighting continued one day in Bayda and the city was liberated, and then the Libyan revolutionaries headed to the outskirts of the city in Shahhat and Al-Abraq Airport. The revolutionaries were able to control the city and its suburbs, and thus Bayda was the first city to break out of Gaddafi's control and remained under the rebels' control throughout the revolution.

Confrontations between the rebels and the Libyan Army in Bayda.
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