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 ...

Attempting to root out the PLO from Beirut ... which ended the war, stipulated that only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers should be deployed in southern Lebanon. It also called for "the ...

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 ...

There may only be 50 living Israeli hostages in Gaza, WSJ reports Hezbollah launches about 25 rockets at northern Israel Civil war will erupt in Gaza if PLO doesn't control it, senior PLO ...

Thousands of people were using a day-long ceasefire in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon war to cross the checkpoints ... the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) near the Beirut museum.

There's no safe place in Lebanon, and every Palestinian is a target," said Mustafa Abu Harb, PLO head for northern ... as it did during the 1975-1990 civil war. "Our strategy is to serve the ...