List of wars involving Lebanon explained

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Lebanon.

War	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Syria–Lebanon campaign(1941)	United Kingdom Assyrian Levies Palmach Transjordan Australia Czechoslovakia	Syria Lebanon ----	Allied victory
First Arab–Israeli War (1948 - 1949)	Egypt Transjordan Syria Saudi Arabia Yemen All-Palestine Protectorate HWA ALA Arab Liberation Army al-Najjada Holy War Army	Israel Yishuv Haganah Palmach Hish Him Irgun Lehi Allied Bedouin tribes^[1] ^[2] Israel Defense Forces Minorities Unit Mahal	Defeat (limited involvement) 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state; Jordanian rule of the West Bank, Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip
Lebanon Crisis (1958)	Government Lebanese Armed Forces Kataeb Party Syrian Social Nationalist Party Tashnag United States	Opposition Najjadeh Party Progressive Socialist Party Lebanese Communist Party Al-Mourabitoun Soviet Union	Government victory Reconciliation government formed
Coup d'état attempt (1961)	Lebanese Government	SSNP-L	Government victory Failed coup attempt
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt(UAR) Jordan Syria Saudi Arabia Iraq Kuwait	Israel	Defeat (Minor involvement) Israel captures and occupies the Golan Heights, the West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982)	Israel Free Lebanon South Lebanon Army Lebanese Front Kataeb Party	PLO LNM Supported by: Soviet Union^[3]	Israeli and Lebanese victory PLO ousted from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War, relocated to Tunis.
Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990)	LF Tigers Militia ALZ Israel SLA United States France Italy United Kingdom	LNM LNRF Amal LCP SSNP Hezbollah Al-Tawhid PLA ADF	Taif Agreement Christian 6:5 ascendancy replaced by 1:1 representation Defeat of PLO and LNM, peace agreement between other internal militias Syrian occupation of Lebanon and the Israeli Security Zone
South Lebanon Conflict (1985 - 2000)	Hezbollah Amal Jammoul	Israel SLA	Hezbollah victory Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon
Shebaa Farms conflict (2000 - 2006)	Hezbollah		Inconclusive Ended with the 2006 Lebanon War Israel continues to control the Shebaa Farms
July War (2006)	Hezbollah	Israel	Stalemate The LAF introduced into South Lebanon
Fatah al-Islam Rebellion (2007)	Lebanon	Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham	Victory Defeat of the militants
May clashes (2008)	Future Movement Progressive Socialist Party	Hezbollah	Hezbollah victory Doha Agreement
Israel–Lebanon border clash (2010)	Lebanon	Israel	Ceasefire Withdrawal of both armies
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon (2011–2017)	Lebanon Hezbollah	Syrian opposition Tahrir al-Sham Islamic State	Victory Islamist groups expelled from Lebanon
Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–ongoing)	Hamas^[4] PIJ^[5] PFLP	Israel	Ongoing Assassination of high-ranking militants in Lebanon

Other armed conflicts involving Lebanon

• 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon
• 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)
• 1982 Lebanon War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Cedar Revolution 2005
• 2008 Lebanon conflict (conflict between supporters and opposers of the government of Fouad Siniora)
• 17 October Revolution (Ongoing)
• 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes

Notes and References

1. Palestine Post, "Israel's Bedouin Warriors", Gene Dison, August 12, 1948
2. News: Bedouin army trackers scale Israel social ladder . AFP . Al Arabiya English . 24 April 2013 . . 7 May 2015 . 31 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220331084908/https://english.alarabiya.net/perspective/profiles/2013/04/24/Bedouin-army-trackers-scale-Israel-social-ladder- . live .
3. Golan, The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Organization, pp. 35–36.
4. Web site: Hamas says 3 members who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon were killed in IAF strike. The Times of Israel. 15 October 2023. 14 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231014234939/https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-says-3-members-who-infiltrated-israel-from-lebanon-were-killed-in-iaf-strike/. live.
5. Web site: Fabian . Emanuel . Officer, 2 soldiers killed in clash with terrorists on Lebanon border; mortars fired . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231009170223/https://www.timesofisrael.com/mortars-fired-from-lebanon-infiltrators-killed-as-6-israelis-hurt-in-gunfight/ . 9 October 2023 . 9 October 2023 . . en-US.