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The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included an American military intervention, which lasted for around three months until President Camille Chamoun, who had requested the assistance, completed his term as president of Lebanon.
In July 1958, Lebanon was threatened by a civil war between Maronite Christians and Muslims. President Camille Chamoun had attempted to break the stranglehold on Lebanese politics exercised by traditional political families in Lebanon. These families maintained their electoral appeal by cultivating strong client–patron relations with their ...
During Lebanon's civil war, Syria's troop deployment in Lebanon was legitimized by the Lebanese Parliament in the Taif Agreement, supported by the Arab League, and is given a major share of the credit for finally bringing the civil war to an end in October 1990.
MAD World has acquired global rights to Sylvie Ballyot’s Lebanon Civil War documentary feature “Green Line,” which will be competing for the Golden Leopard in the main competition of the ...
1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon; Hundred Days' War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) 1978 South Lebanon conflict (also known as Operation Litani, part of the Lebanese Civil War) Battle of Zahleh (part of the Lebanese Civil War) Mountain War (part of the Lebanese Civil War) War of the Camps (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
The conflict peaked during the Lebanese Civil War. In response to Palestinian attacks from Lebanon, Israel invaded the country in 1978 and again in 1982. After this it occupied southern Lebanon until 2000, while fighting a guerrilla conflict against Shia paramilitaries. After Israel's withdrawal, Hezbollah attacks sparked the 2006 Lebanon War.
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A civil war erupts but short lived after the intervention of 5,000 US Marines ordered by President Eisenhower upon the request of the Lebanese president Camille Chamoun. 1975 Gunmen from the Phalanges , a Lebanese Christian group, ambush a bus in Beirut, killing 27 of its mainly Palestinian Muslim passengers, initiating the Lebanese Civil War ...