Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 2011, Libya ta kasance karkashin jagorancin Muammar Gaddafi tun 1969. A watan Fabrairun 2011, a tsakiyar "Lafin Larabci", juyin juya hali ya barke a kansa, yana yaduwa daga birni na biyu Benghazi (inda aka kafa gwamnatin wucin gadi a ranar 27 ga Fabrairu), zuwa babban birnin Tripoli, wanda ya haifar da yakin basasar Libya (2011). A ranar 17 ga Maris, an amince da Kudurin Kwamitin Tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na 1973, wanda ya ba da izinin yankin da ba za a iya tashi sama da Libya ba, da kuma "duk matakan da suka dace" don kare fararen hula. Kwana biyu bayan haka, Faransa, Amurka da Ingila sun kaddamar da aikin soja na 2011 a Libya
tare da Operation Odyssey Dawn, sojojin ruwan Amurka da na Burtaniya sun harba sama da makamai masu linzami na Tomahawk 110, sojojin saman Faransa da na Burtaniya sun yi jigilar jiragen sama a duk fadin Libya da kuma toshewar ruwan da sojojin kawance suka yi. Hadin gwiwar kasashe 27 daga Turai da Gabas ta Tsakiya ba da daɗewa ba suka shiga aikin da NATO ke jagoranta, a matsayin Operation Unified Protector. Gwamnatin Gaddafi ta rushe a watan Agusta, ta bar majalisar rikon kwarya ta kasa a matsayin gwamnatin de facto, tare da amincewar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya. An kama Gaddafi kuma an kashe shi a watan Oktoba ta hanyar dakarun Majalisar Zartarwa ta Kasa kuma aikin NATO ya daina. Rashin kwanciyar hankali ya ci gaba, wanda a ƙarshe ya haifar da yakin basasar Libya.