Idris, also known as "King Idris I of Libya" (12 March 1889 – 25 May 1983), was the first and only King of Libya, reigning from 1951 to 1969. While in Turkey for medical treatment, Idris was deposed in a 1969 coup d'etat by army officers led by Muammar Gaddafi.During World War II, Idris supported the United Kingdom in the hope of ridding his country of Italian occupation, and brought the Senussi tribe and the Cyrenaican nationalists to fight alongside the Allies against the Axis. The Senussi tribesmen provided the British 8th Army in North Africa with valuable intelligence on German and Italian troop movements. With the defeat of the German and Italian forces led by Erwin Rommel, and with the help of the British Military Administration of Cyrenaica he was able to return to his capital, Benghazi, as Emir of Cyrenaica.

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