Question: Which civil unrest (protests) led to this armed conflict in 2011 in Libya during which Arrai TV was used by overseas Libyans to defend the Gaddafi government?
Context: Arrai TV (Arabic قناة الرأي) was an Arabic-language television station based in Syria.  The channel was owned by Misha'an al-Juburi.  During the Libyan Civil War in 2011, it was used by overseas Libyans to defend the Gaddafi government, denounce the anti-Gaddafi rebels and to keep morale up of those which had fled Libya since the war.  The channel aired a number of audio messages from Gaddafi and his aides when they fled Tripoli. The following is a list of ongoing civil unrest or ongoing protests that are taking place around the world.  This list is for the sole purpose of identifying present-day civil unrest and protests and the death toll and number of protesters associated with each event. A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions that it would normally not be allowed to.  A government can declare such state during a disaster, civil unrest, or armed conflict.  Such declaration alerts citizens to change their normal behavior and orders government agencies to implement emergency plans. " Justitium" is its equivalent in Roman law—a concept in which the senate could put forward a final decree (senatus consultum ultimum) that was not subject to dispute. The first Libyan Civil War, also referred to as the Libyan Revolution or 17 February Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011, in the North African country of Libya, fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government.  The war was preceded by protests in Zawiya on 8 August 2009, and finally ignited by protests in Benghazi beginning on Tuesday, 15 February 2011, which led to clashes with security forces that fired on the crowd.  The protests escalated into a rebellion that spread across the country, with the forces opposing Gaddafi establishing an interim governing body, the National Transitional Council. Libya developed particularly close relations with France after the June 1967 War, when France relaxed its arms embargo on nonfront-line Middle East combatants and agreed to sell weapons to the Libyans such as Mirage 5 aircraft.  In 1974 Libya and France signed an agreement whereby Libya exchanged a guaranteed oil supply for technical assistance and financial cooperation.  By 1976, however, Libya began criticizing France as an "arms merchant" because of its willingness to sell weapons to both sides in the Middle East conflict because France was also Israel's primary arms supplier (from its modern 1948 Independence War until the mid-1960s), including selling Israel the same Mirage 5 fighters as it sold Libya.  Libya later criticized France for its willingness to sell arms to Egypt.  Far more serious was Libya's dissatisfaction with French military intervention in the Western Sahara, Chad, and Zaire.  In 1978, Muammar Gaddafi noted that although economic relations were good, political relations were not, and he accused France of having reverted to a colonialist policy that former French president Charles de Gaulle had earlier abandoned. The 2005 Maldivian civil unrest refers to the civil unrest that broke out in Malé, Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll and Addu Atoll of the Maldives on August 12, 2005 which led to events that supported the democratic reform of the country.  This unrest was provoked by the arrest of Mohamed Nasheed - an open critic of the president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - and the subsequent demolition of the "Dhunfini tent", used by the members of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) for their gatherings.  Supporters of MDP were quick to demonstrate.  They started calling for the resignation of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, soon after Nasheed's arrest.  Several arrests were made on the first night followed by the demolition of the Dhunfini tent.  The demolition complicated the situation further provoking the unrest.  The unrest grew violent on the third night, on August 14, 2005, due to the methods used in the attempts by the authority to stop the demonstration. The Libyan Civil War refers to the ongoing conflicts in Libya, beginning with the Arab Spring protests of 2011, which led to the First Libyan Civil War, foreign military intervention, and the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi.  The civil war's aftermath and proliferation of armed groups led to violence and instability across the country, which erupted into renewed civil war in 2014.  The ongoing crisis in Libya has so far resulted in tens of thousands of casualties since the onset of violence in early 2011.  During both civil wars, the output of Libya's economically crucial oil industry collapsed to a small fraction of its usual level, with most facilities blockaded or damaged by rival groups, despite having the largest oil reserves of any African country.  U.S. President Barack Obama stated on 11 April 2016 that not preparing for a post-Gaddafi Libya was probably the "worst mistake" of his presidency. The Battle of Ajdabiya was an armed battle in and near the city of Ajdabiya that took place as part of the Libyan Civil War.  It was fought between anti-government rebels and military forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.  Following the Second Battle of Brega, in which pro-Gaddafi forces captured the town, Ajdabiya was the only major rebel-held city left en route to the rebel capital of Benghazi.  The battle for Ajdabiya had been cited as a potential turning point in the conflict on which the fate of the whole rebellion against the Gaddafi government may be decided.  On 26 March 2011, Libyan rebels, backed by extensive allied air raids, seized control of the frontline oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces.  During the first phase of the battle, pro-Gaddafi forces seized the strategic road junction leading to Benghazi and Tobruk, and captured most of the city.  The city centre remained in rebel hands, but was surrounded by pro-government forces and cut off from outside assistance.  After the second phase, anti-Gaddafi forces recaptured the road junction and cleared loyalist forces from the city, sending them retreating down the Libyan Coastal Highway towards Sirte. Operation Unified Protector was a NATO operation enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 concerning the Libyan Civil War and adopted on 26 February and 17 March 2011, respectively.  These resolutions imposed sanctions on key members of the Gaddafi government and authorized NATO to implement an arms embargo, a no-fly zone and to use all means necessary, short of foreign occupation, to protect Libyan civilians and civilian populated areas.  The operation started on 23 March and gradually expanded during the following weeks, by integrating more and more elements of the multinational military intervention, which had started on 19 March in response to the same UN resolutions.  As of 31 March 2011 it encompassed all international operations in Libya.  NATO support was vital to the rebel victory over the forces loyal to Gaddafi.  The operation officially ended on 31 October 2011, after the rebel leaders, formalized in the National Transitional Council, had declared Libya liberated on 23 October. The following is a timeline of riots and civil unrest in Calgary, Alberta.  Since its incorporation as a town in 1884, like other cities, Calgary has had to deal with a variety of violence.  Calgary has been credited with maintaining relative civility during duress.  The Great Depression in Canada has received particular attention from sociologists and historians, including Thomas Thorner and Neil Watson who wrote, "There is little question that Calgary experienced its share of civil strife during the Depression.  Battles between police and the single unemployed men, full scale riots and threats to blow up public buildings appear to have been almost annual events."  According to Stephen Graham, a Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, recent events have seen the City of Calgary change their tactics towards civil unrest activities such as protests.
Answer: protests in Benghazi