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The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included a United States military intervention. The intervention lasted for around three months until President Camille Chamoun, who had requested the assistance, completed his term as president of Lebanon.
A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport (BIA). On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The ...
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S. -brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel [3] to end their involvement in the conflict between Lebanon's pro-government and pro- Syrian factions.
BEIRUT/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States is spearheading a new diplomatic effort to end hostilities in both Gaza and Lebanon, linking the two conflicts as part of a single initiative, seven ...
Israel launched an intense barrage of airstrikes across swathes of Lebanon on Monday in what was the deadliest day for the country since at least the 2006 war fought between Israel and the ...
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 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel said on Saturday it has killed, led Hezbollah through decades of conflict with Israel, overseeing its transformation into a military force with ...
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon[ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ] (or the "First Lebanon War" in Israel), began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the ...