This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Lebanon.
War
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Result
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)
Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon 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 United Arab Republic
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 Lebanon 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
Syria
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 Syria Tigers Militia ALZIsrael SLAUnited States France Italy United Kingdom
LNM LNRF Amal LCP SSNP PLO Hezbollah Al-TawhidSyria 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
Israel
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)
Hezbollah Hamas[4] PIJ[5] PFLP
Israel
Ongoing
Assassination of high-ranking militants in Lebanon
^Palestine Post, "Israel's Bedouin Warriors", Gene Dison, August 12, 1948
^AFP (24 April 2013). "Bedouin army trackers scale Israel social ladder". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
^Golan, The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Organization, pp. 35–36.
^"Hamas says 3 members who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon were killed in IAF strike". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^Fabian, Emanuel. "Officer, 2 soldiers killed in clash with terrorists on Lebanon border; mortars fired". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
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