Mountain War (Lebanon)
| Mountain War حرب الجبل | |||||||||
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| Part of the Lebanese Civil War | |||||||||
USS New Jersey firing a salvo at Progressive Socialist Party positions in Beirut, January 1984 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Walid Jumblatt Nabih Berri George Hawi Inaam Raad Ibrahim Kulaylat Hussein Hamdan Ahmed Jibril Abu Musa Isam al-Qadi |
Amine Gemayel Ibrahim Tannous Michel Aoun Nadim al-Hakim Fadi Frem Fouad Abou Nader Samir Geagea | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1,200 dead and 1,600 wounded | 1,800 dead and 2,400 wounded | ||||||||
The Mountain War (Arabic: حرب الجبل | Harb 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 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 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 LAF and the eventual collapse of the government under President Amine Gemayel.