Battle of Tripoli (2011)

Battle of Tripoli (2011)
	Part of the First Libyan Civil War
	; Fist Crushing a U.S. Fighter Plane Sculpture which was toppled and captured in Bab al-Azizia in Tripoli
Date	20–28 August 2011; (1 week and 1 day)
Location	Tripoli, Libya
Result	Decisive Anti-Gaddafi victory Capture of Tripoli by rebel forces; Large scale collapse within the Jamahirya Regime.; Majority of Government affiliates either killed or fled to exile.; Gaddafi flees to Sirte.; Sirte and Bani Walid remains under Loyalists control.;
Belligerents
National Transitional Council National Liberation Army Tripoli Brigade; ; Support:; Qatar; UAE UN Security Council Resolution 1973 forces NATO command;	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libyan Armed Forces; Paramilitary forces; Support:; Belarus 334th Special Forces Detachment; Snipers; Military specialists;
Commanders and leaders
Mustafa Abdul Jalil; Mahmoud Jibril; Mahdi al-Harati; Abu Oweis ; Abdelhakim Belhadj ; Khalifa Haftar Charles Bouchard	Muammar Gaddafi; Saif al-Islam Gaddafi; Al-Saadi Gaddafi; Khamis Gaddafi; Mutassim Gaddafi; Ayesha Gaddafi; Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr; Abdullah Senussi; Mohammed Abdullah al-Senussi; Mansour Dhao; Moussa Ibrahim; Abuzed Dorda; Baghdadi Mahmudi
Strength
8,000 (Tripoli Brigade)	3,000~ (Khamis Brigade)
Casualties and losses
2,400 killed; several wounded and killed foreign soldiers	128+ killed; 600 captured; 1 tank destroyed; 4 armoured vehicles destroyed; 4 technicals destroyed; 2 MRLS destroyed; 4 prisoners
	108 civilians killed; 167 unidentified killed

The Battle of Tripoli (Arabic: ﻣﻌﺮﻛﺔ ﻃﺮﺍﺑﻠﺲ maʻarakat Ṭarābulis), sometimes referred to as the Fall of Tripoli (Arabic: سقوط طرابلس suqūt Ṭarābulis), was a military confrontation in Tripoli, Libya, between loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi, the longtime leader of Libya, and the National Transitional Council, which was attempting to overthrow Gaddafi and take control of the capital. The battle began on 20 August 2011, six months after the First Libyan Civil War started, with an uprising within the city; rebel forces outside the city planned an offensive to link up with elements within Tripoli, and eventually take control of the nation's capital.

The rebels codenamed the assault "Operation Mermaid Dawn" (Arabic: ﻋﻤﻠﻴﺔ ﻓﺠﺮ ﻋﺮﻭﺳﺔ ﺍﻟﺒﺤﺮ ʻamaliyyat fajr ʻarūsat el-baḥr). Tripoli's nickname is "The Mermaid" (Arabic: ﻋﺮﻭﺳﺔ ﺍﻟﺒﺤﺮ ʻarūsat el-baḥr) (literally "bride of the sea").