Thanks to the help of the air force, during the battle the Italian soldiers defeated the tribes of Braasa and Dorsa and a unit of Libyan
Savaris of the Italian Army captured
Omar al-Mukhtar, leader of the rebellion, on September 9, 1931. He was later brought to
Soluch and executed by hanging here on September 16. His aides, including
Yousuf Burahil and Fadil Bu Umar, were also executed on 24 September 1932.
Rodolfo Graziani stated that during the executions, 20,000
Bedouins were forced to assist the events to show that their aggression towards the Italian colonials was over. At the end of the battle the heaviest clashes during the
Second Italo-Senussi War also ended. The campaign was later declared over by General
Pietro Badoglio on 24 January 1932. == References ==