At this time, Lebanon was divided by a civil war between Muslims and Christians and the government did not have the resources to control the growing PLO presence. When neighboring Syria sent its army ...

The invasion was successful in that it eventually forced the PLO out of Lebanon, but it also prolonged the Lebanese civil war ...

and to drive the PLO out of the Levant. Israel also sought to tip the balance of forces within Lebanon — which had already been engulfed in civil war — toward ones partial to Israel.

The Israel-Hezbollah war has become the dominant event in the Middle East. The Israeli army has entered southern Lebanon, and ...

This spell of fighting marked a significant escalation of sectarian violence during the civil war, and resulted ... a massive invasion of Lebanon to destroy the PLO, which had been carrying ...

Adwan and Najjar, senior officials in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were asleep in their ... but also helped to spark Lebanon’s civil war and, as a result, Israel’s invasions ...

“The Third Lebanon War.” Instead, 1982’s conflict should be “The War with the PLO’s State within a State” or just “The PLO War,” to be catchy. The 2006 conflict should be “The ...

Lebanon gained independence from France in 1943, establishing a unique, albeit fragile, political system known as “The National Pact.” This system, built on a 1932 census showing a slight ...