including the PLO and Hezbollah. Israel supported the Kataeb (Phalanges), a right-wing Christian political party and paramilitary group that came to power during Lebanon’s civil war. Israeli ...

Like Israel, the Syrians had used the civil war to gain a foothold in Lebanon. They had intervened in 1976, first on the side of the Christians, then on the side of the PLO. With close Syrian ...

During the first phase of the civil war there, in 1975–76 ... Israel put an end to that, and to the PLO presence in Lebanon, with its 1982 invasion, imposing a fresh ceasefire with the May ...

Within a month, the PLO withdrawal was completed ... But the real problem is that when we went back into Lebanon after withdrawing, the U.S. took sides in a civil war that it could not and did ...

From a cliff top, high in Mount Lebanon, two smartly dressed men survey ... looking across what was once no man's land in a bitter civil war. "We used to rejoice when our tanks hit a target ...