Official Name: | Al Wigh |
Other Name: | Al Wyg |
Native Name: | ألويغ |
Pushpin Map: | Libya |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Libya |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Libya |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Fezzan |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Murzuq |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2009 |
Population Total: | 300 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 24.2451°N 14.5661°W |
Elevation M: | 475 |
Al Wigh is a small desert oasis airfield located in the Sahara Desert, army outpost[1] and military base[2] in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It is about 975 kilometres south of the country's capital, Tripoli,[3] and about 500 kilometres to the Niger-Chad border.
The base was the site of several small confrontations in the Southern Libyan Desert campaign in the 2011 Libyan civil war between rebel anti-Gaddafi forces (mainly Toubou tribesmen) and loyalist pro-Gaddafi forces.[4]