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Lebanese Armed Forces: 50,000 1945-current Secular Had numerous splinter groups and different leaderships throughout the war Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners: Unknown 1980s Secular Obscure underground militant organization covertly formed by Israel in Lebanon in the early 1980s to undermine Palestinian and Syrian forces
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Lebanese Civil War Part of the Cold War, Arab Cold War, Arab–Israeli conflict, Iran–Israel and Iran–Saudi proxy wars Left-to-right from top: Monument at Martyrs' Square in the city of Beirut ; the USS New Jersey firing a salvo off of the Lebanese coast; smoke seen rising from the ruins of the ...
The Lebanese Forces (Arabic: القوات اللبنانية, romanized: al-Quwwāt al-Lubnāniyya) was the main Lebanese Christian faction during the Lebanese Civil War. Resembling the Lebanese Front which was an umbrella organization for different parties, the Lebanese Forces was a militia consisting of fighters originating from the different ...
The Lebanese Forces (Arabic: القوات اللبنانية al-Quwwāt al-Libnānīyah) is a Lebanese Christian-based political party and former militia during the Lebanese Civil War. It currently holds 19 of the 128 seats in Lebanon's parliament, being the largest party of the country.
Hundred Days' War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) 1978 South Lebanon conflict (also known as Operation Litani, part of the Lebanese Civil War) Battle of Zahleh (part of the Lebanese Civil War) Mountain War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) War of the Camps (part of the Lebanese Civil War) 1982 Lebanon War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
The Lebanese Civil War was a multi-sided military conflict that pitted a variety of local irregular militias, both Muslim and Christian, against each other between 1975 and 1990. A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies and factions operating in the Lebanese Civil War. Combatants included:
In the aftermath of the June–September 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, President Amin Gemayel, convinced that a strong and unified national defense force was a prerequisite to rebuilding the nation, announced plans to raise a 60,000-man army organized into twelve brigades (created from existing infantry regiments), trained and equipped by France and the United States. [1]
The Mountain War also contributed to shatter the illusion that the Lebanese Civil War had been settled in 1976, [61] a view shared by many Lebanese Christian and Muslim political factions and militias, who believed that the withdrawal of all foreign forces (meaning the Israelis, Syrians and Palestinians) would bring a decisive end to the ...