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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.
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [4] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias and militants acting from within Lebanon. The conflict peaked in the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War. Israel occupied Southern Lebanon ...
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [20] [21] [22] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The Israelis sought to end Palestinian attacks from Lebanon , destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the country, and install a pro-Israel Maronite ...
August 6, 2024 at 6:19 AM. MAD World has acquired global rights to Sylvie Ballyot’s Lebanon Civil War documentary feature “Green Line,” which will be competing for the Golden Leopard in the ...
Civil conflicts in. Between 2011 and 2017, fighting from the Syrian civil war spilled over into Lebanon as opponents and supporters of the Syrian Arab Republic traveled to Lebanon to fight and attack each other on Lebanese soil. The Syrian conflict stoked a resurgence of sectarian violence in Lebanon, [ 65 ] with many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims ...
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 ...
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias —in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese Forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF ...
At the time, Israel's forces had occupied southern Lebanon, during the country's civil war. Hezbollah has participated in national elections since 1992 and has become a major political presence.