Bir Hakeim (Arabic: بئر حكيم, romanized: biʾr ḥakīm, lit. 'wise well', pronounced [biʔr ħaˈkiːm] , sometimes written Bir Hacheim) is the site of a former...

The Bir Hakeim rescue (Arabic: بئر حكيم, romanized: biʾr ḥakīm, lit. 'Wise Well' pronounced [biʔr ħaˈkiːm] ) was a British raid in Italian Cyrenaica (modern...

boulders, conducting the Bir Hakeim rescue. The 91 men were fed then driven back to an Australian Camel Corps outpost at Bir Waer. Next day the liberated...

Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Kufra is a group of oases in the Kufra District of south-eastern Cyrenaica in the Libyan Desert. In...

and supply) Battaglione Aviazione Sahariana, squadrons which guarded the oases in southern Libya. Under Squadra 5 command. The Western Desert Force consisted...

below freezing. The only water in the area is found in a number of small oases, which is also where the only vegetation grows. While the vast majority...

go up to the Egyptian border. Giarabub is the westernmost in a line of oases on the edge of the Sahara into Egypt. In 1940, it was the southernmost Italian...