| Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War | ||||||||
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| Part of the Lebanese Civil War | ||||||||
 Syrian anti-tank teams deployed French-made Milan ATGMs during the war in Lebanon, 1982 | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
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 Lebanese Front (initially) Israel (initially) |
 PLO Lebanese National Movement |
Lebanese Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
 Hafez al-Assad Mustafa Tlass Ali Habib Mahmud Shafiq Fayadh Ali Haydar |
Yasser Arafat George Habash Kamal Jumblatt Mohsen Ibrahim |
Michel Aoun Ibrahim Tannous | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
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25,000 (1976) 30,000 (1982) | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
Syria intervened in the Lebanese Civil War in 1976, one year after the breakout of the war, as Syrian military began supporting Maronite militias against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and leftist militias. Syria also raised a proxy militia of its own, the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA). Hafiz al-Assad's primary objective was to suppress the rise of PLO and allied pro-Palestinian militias in Lebanon which toed a hardline stance against Israel; and the invasion received widespread rebuke in the Arab world.[1]
The involvement was later legalized under the pretext of Arab Deterrent Force of the Arab League. In 1982, Syria battled Israel over control of Lebanon.
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- ^ M. Lüthi, Lorenz (2020). "20: The Middle East". Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe. New York, NY 10006, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 495. doi:10.1017/9781108289825. ISBN 978-1-108-41833-1.
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