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The 2008 Lebanon conflict (or the 7 May clashes; Arabic: أحداث 7 أيار) was a brief intrastate military conflict in May 2008 in Lebanon between opposition militias (mainly Shiite Hezbollah) and pro-government Sunnis. [1]
10 SSNP members, 9 pro-government fighters, 2 Hezbollah fighters, 2 soldiers, 2 civilians, 1 Australian citizen killed; A gunman fired on the funeral procession of the government supporter, who was killed the previous day in Beirut, leaving two people dead and several wounded. [6]
May 8 - 2008 conflict in Lebanon: Fighting erupts after an 18 month political crisis between pro-government and opposition militias across in Beirut after the government shuts down Hezbollah's telecommunication network. [1] Fighting soon spread to other areas of the country, including Tripoli and Aley. [2]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli–Lebanese conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Iran–Israel proxy conflict Israel and Lebanon (regional map) Date 15 May 1948 – present (76 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 4 days) Main phase: 1978–2000, 2006, 2023–present Location Israel and Lebanon Result General cease ...
The Doha Agreement was reached by rival Lebanese factions on 21 May 2008 in Doha, Qatar to end an 18-month-long political crisis. [1]After battles broke out in Lebanon because of the ongoing political crisis, Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013, invited all Lebanese political parties to Qatar's capital of Doha to seek an end to the conflict and ...
The 2006–2008 Lebanese protests were a series of political protests and sit-ins in Lebanon that began on 1 December 2006, [1] led by groups that opposed the US and Saudi-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and ended on 21 May 2008 with the signing of the Doha Agreement.
1982 Lebanon War (1 C, 18 P) S. Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon (1 C, 23 P) W. Wars involving Hezbollah (5 C, 13 P) ... 2008 Lebanon conflict; 1982 Lebanon War; S.
Military operations of the Iraq War in 2008 (2 C, 7 P) R. 2008 riots (32 P) Russo-Georgian War (2 C, 45 P) ... 2008 Lebanon conflict; M. Maoist insurgency in Nepal;