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Army of Free Lebanon (AFL)
جيش لبنان الحر
LeadersAntoine Barakat, Fouad Malek, Saad Haddad, Ghazi Ghattas, Samir el-Achkar, Khalil Nader, Mounir Bejjani, Abdallah Hadchiti, Michel Abou Ghanem, Louis Khoury, Makhoul Hakmeh, Wehbeh Katicha
Dates of operationJanuary 1976 – March 1978
Merged intoSouth Lebanon Army
Group(s)Lebanese Front
HeadquartersFayadieh (East Beirut)
Active regionsBeirut, Mount Lebanon, Northern Lebanon, Southern Lebanon
IdeologyAnti-communism
Phoenicianism
Christian nationalism
Size3,000 men[1]
AlliesArmy of Free Lebanon Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF)
Al-Tanzim
Marada Brigade
Tigers Militia
Guardians of the Cedars (GoC)
Army of Free Lebanon Lebanese Youth Movement (MKG)
Tyous Team of Commandos (TTC)
Army of Free Lebanon Lebanese Forces
Lebanon Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Israel Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
OpponentsLebanon Lebanese National Movement (LNM)
Army of Free Lebanon Lebanese Arab Army (LAA)
Lebanon Lebanese Army
State of Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Syria Syrian Army
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
Preceded by
700 men[2]

The Army of Free Lebanon – AFL (Arabic: جيش لبنان الحر, romanized: Jayish Lubnan al-Horr), also known variously as the "Colonel Barakat's Army" (Arabic: جيش بركات, romanized: Jayish Barakat) or Armée du Liban Libre (ALL) and Armée du Colonel Barakat in French, was a predominantly Christian splinter faction of the Lebanese Army that came to play a major role in the 1975–77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

  1. ^ Collelo, Lebanon: a country study (1989), p. 239.
  2. ^ Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Introduction, p. 1.

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