Battle of Damour (1984)

Battle of Damour
Part of the Mountain War and the Lebanese Civil War
Date 16 February 1984 Location Damour, Lebanon Result Progressive Socialist Party victory
Belligerents
Progressive Socialist Party	Lebanese Forces
Commanders and leaders
Walid Jumblatt	Samir Geagea

The Battle of Damour was the closing battle of the Mountain War and was fought between the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and the Lebanese Forces (LF).

Damour had been held by Kataeb militias and was the target of Druze militia who had already defeated the Kataeb earlier at another coastal city during the Battle of Naameh. Throughought 16 February, Druze militia and Kataeb clashed fiercely over control of the town, ending with Walid Jumblatt's Druze militas overpowering the Kataeb and imposing control of the town. Captured tanks, feared by Druze militia to be booby-trapped, were destroyed. ^[1] Both the regular Lebanese and the Kataeb militias who were routed during the February offensive by Walid Jumblatt's LRNF we're displaced and ended up crossing into Israeli-occupied south Lebanon as refugees, unable to return to the areas controlled by the Lebanese government north of the Chouf. ^[2]

References

1. "Walid Jumblatt and Conflict". nfo. 16 February 1984.
2. "Fighting in West Beirut in February 1984 between Amal movement, the Progressive Socialist Party, and Mourabitoun". IRB. 8 May 1989.