 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Gaddafi akashandura Libya kuva nyika itsva yezvematongerwe enyika inonzi Jamahiriya hurumende yevanhu muna 1977. Iye nenzira yepamutemo akagamuchira basa rokufananidzira mukutonga asi akaramba ari mukuru wemauto uye weRevolutionary Committees ane mutoro wokurinda uye kudzvinyirira kusabvumirana. Mumakore ekuma1970 ne1980, Libya yakatadza kubudirira muhondo dzayakarwa neEgypt neChad, yakatsigira varwi vokune dzimwe nyika, uye yainzi yaiva nemhosva yebhomba reLockerbie kuScotland yakaita kuti nyika iyi iwedzere kusurukirwa munyika yose. Hukama husina kunaka hwakagadzirwa neUnited States, United Kingdom neIsrael, zvichikonzera kubhombwa kweLibya neU.S. muna 1986uye Sangano Romubatanidzwa Wenyika Dzepasi Pose United Nations rakapa zvirango zveupfumi. Kubva muna 1999, Gaddafi akaramba pan-Arabism uye akakurudzira kuwirirana nenyika dzekuMadokero uye pan-Africanism; aive Sachigaro weAfrican Union kubva muna 2009 kusvika 2010. Mukati meArab Spring ya2011, kuratidzira kupokana nehuwori hwakapararira uye kushaya mabasa kwakatanga muEastern Libya. Mamiriro acho ezvinhu akaderera kuva hondo yevagari vemo, umo NATO yakapindira muchiuto kudivi reNational Transitional Council NTC inorwisana naGaddafi. Hurumende yakakandirwa pasi uye Gaddafi akadzokera kuSirte, achingobatwa ndokuurawa nevarwi veNTC. 