Italian troops captured Ghat in the south-west of the province in August 1914, which prompted an uprising and forced the Italians out of Ghat and Ghadames. The call to jihad had more effect among the Senussi than elsewhere and Ahmad began the jihad in Fezzan in southern Libya. The Italians re-captured Ghadames in February 1916 but the blockade on the Senussi had little military effect, since they were well stocked with captured Italian weapons; Italian garrisons in Cyrenaica were withdrawn to reinforce the west. Ottoman-German operations in Tripolitania were based at Misratah, where a submarine visited every couple of weeks to deliver arms and ammunition and in May 1917 a wireless station was built. Ottoman troops established about twenty posts on the coast and by 1918 had 20,000 regular troops, a similar number in training and another 40,000 untrained reservists. In September 1918, having been prevented from entering Tripolitania by the Ottoman forces, Sayed Ahmed boarded a German submarine at al-Aqaila and went into exile in Turkey. In Tripolitania, local troops under al-Shtaiwi and Ottoman regular soldiers under Nuri Bey and Suliman al-Baruni, resisted the Italians until the end of the war. Archaeological analysis of the salt pan of Kallaya, the site of a minor skirmish between Libyans on 14 November 1918, shows that they had Russian rifles captured by the Germans and Austro-Hungarians on the Eastern front and sent to Libya via the Ottomans.

Question: Which happened first, the capture of Ghat or the re-capture of Ghadames?
Answer: Italian troops captured Ghat

Question: How many months passed between the capture of Ghat and the re-capture of Ghadames?
Answer: 18

Question: How many more untrained reservists than regular troops did the Ottoman army have?
Answer: 20000

Question: How many regular troops and untrained reservists did the Ottomans have?
Answer: 60000

Question: Why was there an uprising in 1914?
Answer: Italian troops captured Ghat

Question: How many years do these events span?
Answer: 4

Question: What event happened first, Ghat being captured, or ghadames being captured?
Answer: captured Ghat in the south-west

Question: What event happened later, the italian troops capturing Ghat, or the Italians capturing Ghadames?
Answer: he Italians re-captured Ghadames

Question: How many months after Italian troops captured Ghat in the south-west of the province did the Italians re-capture the Ghadames?
Answer: 18

Question: How many regular troops and untrained reservists did the Ottoman have?
Answer: 60000

Question: How many months after a wireless station was built at Misratah did Sayed Ahmed board a German submarine at al-Aquila and go into exile in Turkey?
Answer: 16

Question: How many months after Sayed Ahmed went into exile was there a minor skirmish at the salt pan of Kallaya between Libyans?
Answer: 2