It was the Lebanese Civil War. The Druse are Lebanese Muslims, and they fought against Lebanese Christians for many years. It was an internal power struggle which devastated the country, but peace was finally agreed upon and Lebanon is rebuilding.
Lebanon was populated by Christians and Druse Muslims (a minor division of Islam with elements of Christianity). The Christians held the power, and as the Druse population grew they demanded a greater voice in the government. As people who hold power are usually reluctant to give it up, the Lebanese Christians refused, and it erupted into civil war.
There were a few wars that Israel fought in Lebanon: the Lebanese Civil War from 1981-1982, the Occupation of Southern Lebanon from 1982-2000, and the War Against Hezbollah in 2006.
The country that had a civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1991 was Lebanon. ,
Muslims who had fled to Lebanon upset the balance of power with Christians.
The Lebanese civil war took place from 1975 and ended in 1990. It took place in all of Lebanon. Starting from Beirut and ending in Byblos.
Lebanon was populated by Christians and Druse Muslims (a minor division of Islam with elements of Christianity). The Christians held the power, and as the Druse population grew they demanded a greater voice in the government. As people who hold power are usually reluctant to give it up, the Lebanese Christians refused, and it erupted into civil war.
there were a civil war in lebanon in 1980s
There was famine in Lebanon during World War I.
There were a few wars that Israel fought in Lebanon: the Lebanese Civil War from 1981-1982, the Occupation of Southern Lebanon from 1982-2000, and the War Against Hezbollah in 2006.
Yes, several of them. The Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentina was in 1982. The Iran-Iraq War continued, as did civil war between Christians and Druse Muslims in Lebanon. There were also insurgencies in El Salvador and Nicaragua as features of the Cold War which was less obvious but still ongoing in 1982, and numerous other small wars around the globe.
The main character in the story "A Horseman in the Sky" is Druse, a young soldier from Virginia who finds himself torn between loyalty to his country and his family during the Civil War.
YES. Lebanon has been dragged into the Syrian Civil War, but on a more localized front.
The 1982 War of Lebanon, also called "Operation Peace for Galilee" by Israel, was fought between Israel and Lebanon when the former invaded the latter.
Lebanon and Syria have not been in direct conflict since the Syrian army ended the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon in April 2005. There have been some border skirmishes, especially because some of the Syrian Civil War spills over into Lebanon, but there is no declared war between the Syrian Regime or any of the other Syrian Civil War parties and Lebanon.
The country that had a civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1991 was Lebanon. ,
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YES. The two suicide bombings against the Israel Defense Forces' headquarters building in Tyre, Lebanon took place in 1982 and 1983, which was during Israel's intervention in the Lebanese Civil War. This intervention is commonly called the First Israel-Lebanon War in Pro-Israeli circles (in contrast to the War with Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, which is called the Second Israel-Lebanon War).