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 ...

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 ...

(credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI/FILE PHOTO) UNIFIL was originally set up in 1978 after the IDF’s Operation Litani cleared PLO ... of Lebanon, mired at the time in the midst of a civil war ...

“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 ...