• British personnel had been deployed previously, Palliser was the first large-scale intervention by British forces in the Sierra Leone Civil War. In early...
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  • The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary...
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    The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2006. It was created by the...
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  • Sierra Leone first became inhabited by indigenous African peoples at least 2,500 years ago. The Limba were the first tribe known to inhabit Sierra Leone...
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    Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (category People of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    order in Sierra Leone. Kabbah declared the civil war officially over in early 2002. Tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans across the country took to the streets...
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    of the Order of the Rokel, Sierra Leone's highest honour, for "gallant leadership of the British Military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War."...
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    groups such as the Rally of Democratic Forces of Guinea in the RFDG Insurgency and the Revolutionary United Front in the Sierra Leone Civil War. This brought...
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    Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It shares its southeastern border with Liberia...
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  • NATO bombing of Yugoslavia; British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War; and the 2011 military intervention in Libya. According to historian...
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    humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law" committed in Sierra Leone after 30 November 1996 and during the Sierra Leone Civil War. The court's working language...
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    Revolutionary United Front (category Military units and factions of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel group that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone, beginning in 1991 and ending in 2002. It later...
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    Operation Barras (category Sierra Leone Civil War)
    Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war. The operation...
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    involvement in the Syrian Civil War began diplomatically and later escalated militarily. Initially, Turkey condemned the Syrian government at the outbreak...
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  • British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War (2000) Coalition military intervention in Libya (2011) Military intervention against the Islamic...
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    Johnny Paul Koroma (category People of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    his military career in 1985, and quickly rose through the ranks of the Sierra Leonean army. Following the start of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1991...
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  • Foday Sankoh (category People of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    the 11-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. An estimated 50,000 people were killed during the war, and over 500,000...
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    the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1181. Its mission was to monitor the military and security situation in Sierra Leone. The mission...
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  • Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (category Military units and factions of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the...
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  • West Side Boys (category Military units and factions of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    The West Side Boys, also known as the West Side Niggaz or the West Side Junglers, were an armed group in Sierra Leone, sometimes described as a splinter...
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    foreign military operations, such as during its intervention in Liberian civil war in 1990. The great expansion of the military during the civil war further...
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    states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian Civil War and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial...
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  • 1997: Sierra Leone: On May 29 and 30, 1997, U.S. military personnel were deployed to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to prepare for and undertake the evacuation...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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  • and had a contract with the government under then-Prime Minister Julius Chan, causing the Sandline affair. In 1998 in Sierra Leone Sandline had a contract...
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    (1982) Gulf War (1990–91) Bosnian War (1992–96) Operation Desert Fox (1998) Kosovo War (1999) Sierra Leone Civil War (2000) War on Terror War in Afghanistan...
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    HMS Argyll (F231) (category Frigates of the United Kingdom)
    deployed to Sierra Leone as part of the British military intervention in the Sierra Leone civil war. During those operations, Argyll acted as the West African...
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  • Alan Jones (diplomat) (category People of the Sierra Leone Civil War)
    British diplomat who was High Commissioner to Sierra Leone during the British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War. Jones joined the Lord...
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    A civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary...
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  • British superiority in the military science, the British troops could not force a decisive win over the Maratha troops in the First Anglo-Maratha War...
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    contacts in the Iranian government and exploring the chances of obtaining work in Africa. The company eventually operated in Zambia and in Sierra Leone, providing...
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