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Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured by NTC forces and executed shortly afterwards. [ 1 ] The NTC initially claimed Gaddafi succumbed to injuries sustained in a firefight when loyalist forces attempted to free him, although a video of his last moments shows rebel fighters beating him and one of them sodomizing him with a ...
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
8 May 1999. Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed. Prime Minister of Djibouti. 1 April 2013. Egypt. Northeast Africa [ 2] Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. President of Egypt. 8 June 2014.
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the fifth prime minister of Israel, took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assailant was Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and ultranationalist who radically ...
On 6 October 1981, Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1] The assassination was undertaken by members ...
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi [pron 1] ( c.1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011. He first served as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the Brotherly Leader of the ...
Assassination of Alexander I and Louis Barthou on October 9, 1934, Marseilles, France. Executed body of Abd al-Karim Qasim on February 9, 1963, Baghdad, Iraq. Executed body of Ngô Đình Diệm on November 2, 1963, Saigon, South Vietnam. Assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas, United States.
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt , Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [ 1 ] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.