Events in the year 2018 in
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...
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Incumbents
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President
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Aguila Saleh Issa
Aguila Saleh Issa Gueider (; born January 11, 1944) is a Libyan jurist and politician who is the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (Libya), House of Representatives since 2014. He therefore served as the List of heads of state of Li ...
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Prime Minister
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Abdullah al-Thani
Abdullah al-Theni ( Libyan pronunciation: ) is a Libyan politician who served as the prime minister of Libya, from 2014, when he took over in an interim capacity after the dismissal of Ali Zeidan, to 2021. In the context of the second ...
Events
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Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
Demographics of Libya is the demography of Libya, specifically covering population density, ethnicity, and religious affiliations, as well as other aspects of the Libyan population. All figures are from the United Nations Demographic Yearbooks ...
**27 August to 25 September –
Battle of Tripoli
**19 December –
Battle of Saddada Castle
The Battle of Saddada Castle was fought between the Libyan National Army, and the Sirte Protection Force and the Benghazi Defense Brigades
The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (, ''Majlis Shura Thuwar Benghazi'') was a military coali ...
**27 December –
Battle of Traghan
The Battle of Traghan was fought between the Libyan National Army and a Chadian armed group in Traghan on 27 December 2018.
Background
After the Second Libyan Civil War broke out in 2014, as numerous armed factions started to fight for control ...
Deaths
*9 May –
Omar Daoud
Omar Daoud (9 April 1983 – 9 May 2018) was a Libyan professional footballer who played as a defender. He was an international for the Libya national team, and was best known for playing for Libyan club Al Ahli Tripoli and Algerian club JS Kab ...
, footballer (b. 1983).
*20 May –
Ali Hassanein, politician (b. 1925)
References
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