Second Battle of Zawiya

Second Battle of Zawiya
Part of the 2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive
Date13–20 August 2011
Location
Result Anti-Gaddafi Victory
Territorial
changes
Rebel forces capture the town
Belligerents

Anti-Gaddafi forces


NATO per UNSC 1973

Gaddafi loyalists

Commanders and leaders
Ismail al-Sallabi
Osama Arusi
Mahdi al-Arabi (POW)
Strength
600 fighters Munawaba Brigade
1,000 conscripts
Casualties and losses
41 killed,
1 tank destroyed

93 killed, 150 wounded, 15 captured


9 tanks, 1 armored vehicle, 5 technical, 1 Military boat destroyed (NATO claim)
24 civilians killed

The Second Battle of Zawiya or Zawia took place during the Libyan Civil War between rebel anti-Gaddafi forces and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for control of the Tripolitania city of Zawia.