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War of Elimination (1990, Lebanon) The War of Elimination ( Arabic: حرب الإلغاء) [1] or War of Attrition ( Arabic: حرب استنزاف), also known as the Aoun-Geagea War, was an inter- Christian military conflict within the final phase of the Lebanese Civil War as part of the War of Liberation which took place between January to ...
The War of Liberation (Arabic: حرب التحرير) was a sub-conflict within the final phase of the Lebanese Civil War between 1989 and 1990, in which the Lebanese Army loyal to General and Prime Minister Michel Aoun, appointed by previous President Amine Gemayel and headquartered in eastern Beirut, fought against the western Beirut-based Syrian Armed Forces and the Lebanese Army loyal to ...
East Beirut canton. The East Beirut canton, also known as Kfarshima - Madfoun[1] or Marounistan, [2] was a Christian -dominated geopolitical region that existed in Lebanon from 1976 [3] until its gradual erosion following the Taif Agreement and the end of the country's civil war. [4] It was one of the wartime state-like territories, controlled ...
The 21-day pause in fighting that the nations were proposing would give time for diplomacy and could prevent a full-fledged war from breaking out between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon's Health Ministry says more than 1,000 Lebanese were killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks. The government said a million people - a fifth of the population - had fled their homes.
The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [5] and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised address at a memorial ceremony to mark one week since the passing of Mohammad Yaghi, one of the powerful armed group's figures ...
Damour massacre. The Damour massacre took place on 20 January 1976, during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. Damour, a Maronite Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by left-wing militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa. Many of its people died in battle or in the massacre that followed, and ...