The turning point came on January 2, 1987, at the Battle of Fada, the first clash in the so-called "Toyota War." Fada was a rebel stronghold backed by Libyan arms, tanks, and armored vehicles.

The backbone of any modern rebel army remains the bullet-, crash-, flood-, and demolition-proof Toyota Hilux. Barely days after the Libyan civil war broke out, the fearless Hungarian traveler ...

Reporting from Cairo — It was, by all appearances, a jihadists’ pool party — staged at an abandoned American ... the character of a regional proxy war. Libyan Dawn is supported by the ...