List of wars involving Lebanon

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Lebanon.

War	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Syria–Lebanon campaign (1941)	United Kingdom India Assyrian levies Mandatory Palestine Palmach Transjordan Australia Free French Czechoslovakia	Vichy France Syria Lebanon Supported by: Germany	Allied victory Syria and Lebanon taken over by Free France
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)	Arab League :   Egypt [1] All-Palestine Protectorate [a] Holy War Army [a] Transjordan [1]   Iraq [1] Syria [1] Lebanon [b] Saudi Arabia [3]   Yemen [4] Irregulars: Arab Liberation Army Al-Najjada Holy War Army	Israel Before 26 May 1948: Yishuv Paramilitary groups: Haganah Palmach Hish Him Irgun Lehi Allied Bedouin tribes [5] [6] After 26 May 1948: Israel Defense Forces Minorities Unit Foreign volunteers: Mahal	Defeat(limited involvement) Establishment of the State of Israel, Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight Beginning of the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
Lebanon Crisis (1958)	Government Lebanese Armed Forces Kataeb Party Syrian Social Nationalist Party ARF Supported by: United States	Opposition Najjadeh Party Progressive Socialist Party Lebanese Communist Party Al-Mourabitoun Supported by: United States	Opposition's goals achieved [7] [8] [9] President Camille Chamoun forced to step down Formation of Second Cabinet of Rashid Karami, which included opposition elements
Coup d'état attempt (1961)	Lebanese Government Lebanese Armed Forces	SSNP-L	Lebanese Government victory Coup attempt fails
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq [10] Minor involvement: Lebanon [11]	Israel	Defeat(Minor involvement) Israel occupies a total of 70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi) of territory: [12] The Golan Heights from Syria The West Bank including East Jerusalem from Jordan The Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt [13] [14]
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982)	Israel Free Lebanon SLA Lebanese Front	PLO Syria LNM Supported by: Soviet Union [15]	Israeli and Lebanese victory Expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Lebanese territory to Tunisia, after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Beginning of the South Lebanon conflict in 1985 Syrian occupation of Lebanon (1976–2005) Israeli occupation of Lebanon (1985–2000)}}
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)	LF Syria Tigers Militia ALZ Israel SLA United States France Italy United Kingdom	LNM LNRF Amal LCP SSNP PLO Hezbollah Al-Tawhid Syria PLA ADF	Taif Agreement Christian 6:5 ascendancy replaced by 1:1 representation Defeat of PLO and LNM, peace agreement between other internal militias Syrian occupation of Lebanon and the Israeli Security Zone
South Lebanon Conflict (1985–2000)	Hezbollah Amal Lebanese Communist Party Jammoul PFLP–GC	Israel South Lebanon Army	Hezbollah-led victory [16] Collapse of the SLA and its provisional government [17] Israeli withdrawal and end of its occupation of Southern Lebanon
Shebaa Farms conflict (2000–2006)	Hezbollah	Israel	Inconclusive Ended with the 2006 Lebanon War Israel continues to control the Shebaa Farms
July War (2006)	Hezbollah Allies: Amal Popular Guard [18] PFLP-GC [19] Iran ( Ynet report) [20] ICU (U.N. report) [21] [22]	Israel	Inconclusive The LAF introduced into South Lebanon
Fatah al-Islam Rebellion (2007)	Lebanese Armed Forces Internal Security Forces Supported by: United States	Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham	Victory Defeat of the militants
May clashes (2008)	Future Movement Progressive Socialist Party	Hezbollah	Hezbollah victory Doha Agreement
Israel–Lebanon border clash (2010)	Lebanon	Israel	Ceasefire Withdrawal of both armies
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon (2011–2017)	Lebanon Hezbollah	Syrian opposition Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham Islamic State	Victory Islamist groups expelled from Lebanon
Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–ongoing)	Hezbollah Hamas [23] PIJ [24] PFLP	Israel	Ceasefire Elimination of much of Hezbollah's leadership and military capabilities IDF withdraws south of the Blue Line and Hezbollah withdraws north of the Litani River LAF becomes sole army in Southern Lebanon

Other armed conflicts involving Lebanon

• 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon
• 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon
• Hundred Days' War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• 1978 South Lebanon conflict (also known as Operation Litani, part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Battle of Zahleh (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Mountain War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• War of the Camps (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• 1982 Lebanon War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Cedar Revolution 2005 (Attacks linked to the Cedar Revolution)
• 17 October Revolution
• 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes

Notes

1. After 22 September 1948
2. Lebanon had decided to not participate in the war and only took part in the battle of al-Malikiya on 5–6 June 1948. ^[2]

References

1. Oren 2003, p. 5.
2. Morris (2008), p. 260.
3. Gelber, pp. 55, 200, 239
4. Morris, Benny (2008), 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, Yale University Press, p. 205, New Haven, ISBN   978-0-300-12696-9.
5. Palestine Post, "Israel's Bedouin Warriors", Gene Dison, August 12, 1948
6. AFP (24 April 2013). "Bedouin army trackers scale Israel social ladder". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
7. "B&J": Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson, International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management 1945-1995 (1997)
8. Eckhardt, William, in World Military and Social Expenditures 1987-88 (12th ed., 1987) by Ruth Leger Sivard.
9. Singer, Joel David, The Wages of War, 1816-1965 (1972)
10. Krauthammer, Charles (18 May 2007). "Prelude to the Six Days". The Washington Post. p. A23. ISSN   0740-5421. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2008.
11. Oren (2002), p. 237. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFOren2002 (help)
12. Arnold, Guy (2016). Wars in the Third World Since 1945. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 299. ISBN   9781474291019.
13. "Milestones: 1961–1968". Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018. Between June 5 and June 10, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights
14. Weill, Sharon (2007). "The judicial arm of the occupation: the Israeli military courts in the occupied territories". International Review of the Red Cross. 89 (866): 401. doi:10.1017/s1816383107001142. ISSN   1816-3831. S2CID   55988443. On 7 June 1967, the day the occupation started, Military Proclamation No. 2 was issued, endowing the area commander with full legislative, executive, and judicial authorities over the West Bank and declaring that the law in force prior to the occupation remained in force as long as it did not contradict new military orders.
15. Golan, The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Organization, pp. 35–36.
16. References:
    • Helmer, Daniel Isaac. Flipside of the Coin: Israel's Lebanese Incursion Between 1982–2000. DIANE Publishing, 2010.
    • "2000: Hezbollah celebrates Israeli retreat". BBC News. 26 May 2000. Retrieved 25 July 2006.
17. • "Land for Peace Timeline". Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre. 2006. Archived from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
    • "Hezbollah 101: Who is the militant group, and what does it want?". The Christian Science Monitor. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012. Iran has also played an instrumental role in building up Hezbollah's military capabilities over the years, which enabled the group's impressive military wing to oust Israel from south Lebanon in 2000
18. Herbert Docena (17 August 2006). "Amid the bombs, unity is forged". Asia Times . Archived from the original on 31 August 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2011. The LCP ... has itself been very close to Hezbollah and fought alongside it in the frontlines in the south. According to Hadadeh, at least 12 LCP members and supporters died in the fighting.
19. "PFLP claims losses in IDF strike on Lebanon base". The Jerusalem Post . Associated Press. 6 August 2006. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012.
20. Klein, Aaron (27 July 2006). "Iranian soldiers join Hizbullah in fighting". Ynet. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
21. Worth, Robert F. (2006-11-15). "U.N. Says Somalis Helped Hezbollah Fighters". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-10-26. More than 700 Islamic militants from Somalia traveled to Lebanon in July to fight alongside Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a United Nations report says. The militia in Lebanon returned the favor by providing training and — through its patrons Iran and Syria — weapons to the Islamic alliance struggling for control of Somalia, it adds.
22. "Report: Over 700 Somalis fought with Hizbullah". The Jerusalem Post . 2006-11-15. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
23. "Hamas says 3 members who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon were killed in IAF strike". The Times of Israel . Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
24. Fabian, Emanuel. "Officer, 2 soldiers killed in clash with terrorists on Lebanon border; mortars fired". The Times of Israel . Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.