Lebanese Resistance Regiments

Lebanese Resistance Regiments
أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية
FoundersMusa al-Sadr, Hussein el-Husseini, Nabih Berri, Mostafa Chamran, Hassan Nasrallah, Abbas al-Musawi, Naim Qassem, Imad Mughniyeh, Ragheb Harb[1]
Spiritual leadersMusa al-Sadr
Ragheb Harb[1]
Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur[1]
Political leadersNabih Berri
Hussein el-Husseini
Mostafa Chamran
CommandersAbbas al-Musawi
Hassan Nasrallah
Naim Qassem
Imad Mughniyeh
Abdel Karim Obeid
Hussein al-Musawi
Hamza akl Hamieh
Mohammed Aknan
Mohammad Saleh
Mohamad Saad
Daoud Daoud
Mahmood Fakih
Hassan Jaafar
Dates of operation1975 – 1991
Dissolved1991
Merged into Hezbollah[2]
Group(s)Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO)
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth (OOE)[3][3][4][5]
Revolutionary Justice Organization (RJO)[3][3][6][5]
Islamic Dawa Party in Lebanon (IDP-L)[7][8][9]
Islamic Amal (IA)[10][11][12][13][14]
Jundallah and the Association of Muslim Students and Clerics (JAMSC)[15][16][17][18][19]
Imam Hussein Suicide Squad (IHSS)[20][21][22][23]
MotivesResistance to Israeli occupation of South Lebanon and the desturction of State of Israel[24][2]
HeadquartersJnah (Chyah, Beirut)
Active regionsChouf District, West Beirut, Southern Lebanon
IdeologyLebanese nationalism[25]
Patriotism[25]
Militarism[25]
Anti-imperialism[2]
Anti-Zionism[2]
SloganTo struggle against oppression (Tagline)[26]
StatusDisbanded
Size16,000 fighters
Part of Amal Movement
Front of Patriotic and National Parties (FPNP)
AlliesLebanon Lebanese National Movement (LNM)
Lebanese Arab Army (LAA)
Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO)
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)/ People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Lebanese Communist Party (LCP)/Popular Guard
Toilers League
Zgharta Liberation Army (ZLA)
Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)
Syria Syrian Army
Opponents Lebanese Front
Army of Free Lebanon (AFL)
Lebanese Forces
Lebanon Lebanese Army
Al-Mourabitoun
Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)
Sixth of February Movement
Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon (OCAL)
Lebanese Communist Party (LCP)/Popular Guard
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)/People's Liberation Army (PLA)
State of Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
South Lebanon Army (SLA)
Israel Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
Preceded by
1,500 Shiite fighters

The Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Arabic: أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية, romanizedʾAfwāj al-Muqāwama al-Lubnāniyya, or أَمَل AMAL), also designated Lebanese Resistance Battalions, Lebanese Resistance Detachments, Lebanese Resistance Legions and Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise (BRL), but simply known by its Arabic acronym أَمَل ʾAmal which means "Hope", were the military wing of the Amal Movement, a political organization representing the Muslim Shia community of Lebanon. The movement's political wing was officially founded in February 1973 from a previous organization bearing the same name and its military wing was formed in January 1975. The Amal militia was a major player in the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1991. The militia has now been disarmed, though the movement itself, now known as the Amal Movement (Arabic: Harakat Amal), is a notable Shia political party in Lebanon alongside Hezbollah.

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