Mountain War (Lebanon)

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The Mountain War (Arabic: حرب الجبل, romanized: Ḥarb al-Jabal), also known as the War of the Mountain, was a subconflict between the 1982–83 and the 1984–89 phase of the Lebanese Civil War, which occurred mainly at the mountainous Chouf District located south-east of the Lebanese Capital Beirut. It pitted the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia and the official Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) against a coalition of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF) led by the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), allied with the Amal Movement and the Palestinian National Salvation Front (PNSF), and backed by Syria. Hostilities began when the LF and the LAF entered the predominantly Druze Chouf District to bring the region back under government control, only to be met with fierce resistance from local Druze militias and their allies. The PSP leader Walid Jumblatt's persistence to refuse join the central government and his instigation of a wider opposition faction led to disintegration of the already fragile...

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