Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War

Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War
Part of the Lebanese Civil War

Syrian anti-tank teams deployed French-made Milan ATGMs during the war in Lebanon, 1982
Date1976 – 1990
Location
Lebanon
Result Taif Agreement in 1989, Syrian occupation of Lebanon continues until 2005 due to the Cedar Revolution which ousted them.
Territorial
changes		 Syrian partial occupation of Lebanon until 2005
Belligerents

Syria
In support of:
FPNP
PNSF
Marada Brigade Supported by:

 Palestine Liberation Organization
Lebanese National Movement (until 1978)

Lebanese Front
Lebanese Armed Forces Supported by:

Commanders and leaders
Hafez al-Assad
Mustafa Tlass
Ali Habib Mahmud
Hikmat al-Shihabi
Shafiq Fayadh
Ali Haydar
Nabih Berri
Ahmed Jibril
George Habash
Suleiman Frangieh		 Yasser Arafat
Kamal Jumblatt X
Mohsen Ibrahim

Pierre Gemayel
Amine Gemayel
Bachir Gemayel X

Michel Aoun
Ibrahim Tannous
Strength
25,000 (1976)
30,000 (1982)		 45,000 (1976) (including allied PLO fighters) 20,000 (1976)

Ba'athist Syria launched a military intervention in the Lebanese Civil War in 1976, one year after the breakout of the war, as Syrian Arab Armed Forces began supporting Maronite militias against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and leftist militias. Syria also raised a proxy militia of its own, the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA). Hafez al-Assad's primary objective was to suppress the rise of PLO and allied pro-Palestinian militias in Lebanon which toed a hardline stance against Israel; and the invasion received widespread rebuke in the Arab world.

The involvement was later legalized under the pretext of Arab Deterrent Force of the Arab League. In 1982, Syria battled Israel over control of Lebanon.

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