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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.[2]

Al Wigh ألويغ Al Wyg
Al Wigh Location in Libya
Coordinates: 24°14′42.31″N 14°33′57.95″E
Country	Libya
Region	Fezzan
District	Murzuq
Elevation	1,558 ft (475 m)
Population  (2009)
• Total	300
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)

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.[2][4]

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[de] Al-Wigh

Al-Wigh (arabisch الويغ, DMG al-Wīġ) ist eine kleine Oase in der Wüste Sahara mit einem Flugplatz und einem Armeeaußenposten in der Region Fessan im Südwesten Libyens.

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- [en] Al Wigh

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