List of weapons of the Lebanese Civil War information

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The Lebanese Civil War was a multi-sided military conflict that pitted a variety of local irregular militias, both Muslim and Christian, against each other between 1975 and 1990. A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies and factions operating in the Lebanese Civil War. Combatants included:

• the leftist-Muslim militias of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) coalition (1975 – 1982):
  • the Sunni Muslim Independent Nasserite Movement's Al-Mourabitoun militia (1975 – 1988);
  • the Sunni Muslim Popular Nasserist Organization's National Liberation Army (NLA) militia (1975 – 1991);
  • the Sunni Muslim Toilers League's Zafer el-Khatib Forces (ZKF) militia (1974 – 1991);
  • the Druze Progressive Socialist Party's People's Liberation Army (Druze PLA) militia (1975 – 1991);
  • the Sixth of February Movement militia (1975 – 1986);
  • the Union of Working People's Forces's (UWPF) Victory Divisions militia (1965 – 1990);
  • the Union of Working People's Forces-Corrective Movement's (UWPF-CM) Nasser's Forces militia (1975 – 1990);
  • the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL) militia (1975 – 1991);
  • the Lebanese Communist Party's Popular Guard militia (1970 – 2000);
  • the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's Assad Battalion militia (1966 – present);
  • the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) militia (1932 – present);
  • the Najjadeh Party militia (1936 – present);
  • the Shia Muslim Knights of Ali militia (1967 – 1976);
  • the Muslim Lebanese Arab Army (LAA), dissident faction of the Lebanese Army (1976 – 1977);
• the rightist-Christian militias of the Lebanese Front coalition (1976 – 1980):
  • the Christian Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia (1961 – 1980);
  • the Christian Al-Tanzim militia (1969 – 1990);
  • the Christian Guardians of the Cedars (GoC) militia (1974 – 2000);
  • the Christian Tigers Militia (a.k.a. Al-Noumour, Noumour Al-Ahrar, Noumours, NLP Tigers) militia (1968 – 1991);
  • the Christian Zgharta Liberation Army (ZLA, a.k.a. Al-Marada, Marada Brigade, Mardaite Brigade) militia (1967 – 1991);
  • the Christian Tyous Team of Commandos (TTC, a.k.a. "Tyous" for short, also translated as the "Stubborn Ones" or "Les Têtus", "Les Obstinés") militia (1975 – 1985);
  • the Christian Lebanese Youth Movement (LYM, a.k.a. Maroun Khoury Group – MKG) militia (1975 – 1977);
  • the Christian Young Men militia (1978 – 1986);
  • the Christian Zahliote Group (ZG, a.k.a. Groupement Zahliote – GZ) militia (1975 – 1981);
  • the Christian Shuraya Party's Assyrian Battalion (AB) militia (1978 – 1981);
  • the Christian Maronite Monks militia (1975 – 1980);
  • the Christian Maronite League militia (1952 – present);
  • the Christian Army of Free Lebanon (AFL), dissident faction of the Lebanese Army (1976 – 1978);
• the Christian Lebanese Forces militia (LF), successor of the Lebanese Front and the KRF militia (1977 – 1994);
• the Christian Lebanese Forces – Executive Command (LFEC) militia, dissident faction of the LF (1985 – 1991);
• the Druze Vanguard of the Maani Army (Movement of the Druze Jihad) (VMA – MDJ) militia (1976 – 1978);
• the Kurdish Democratic Party – Lebanon (KDP-L) militia (1975 – 1991);
• the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) urban guerrilla group (1975 – 1991);
• the Alawite Arab Democratic Party's Arab Red Knights (ARK) militia (1981 – 1991);
• the Shia Muslim Amal Movement militia (1975 – present);
• the Shia Muslim Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) urban guerrilla group (1983 – 1992);
• the Shia Muslim Hezbollah guerrilla group (1985 – present);
• the Sunni Muslim Islamic Unification Movement (IUM, a.k.a. Al-Tawheed) militia (1982 – present);
• the United Nasserite Organization (UNO) guerrilla group (1986 – 1991);
• the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) urban guerrilla group (1979 – 1988);
• the Lebanese Liberation Front (LLF) urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1989);
• the Popular Revolutionary Resistance Organization (PRRO) urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1990);
• the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) urban guerrilla group (1980 – 1983);
• the Liberation Battalion urban guerrilla group (1987 – 1988);
• the Sons of the South (SotS) guerrilla group (1983 – 1995);
• the South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia (1978 – 2000);
• the official Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Internal Security Forces (ISF), led by the Lebanese government;
• the mainstream Palestinian guerrilla factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the breakaway Rejectionist Front (present in Lebanon from 1968 to 1983);
• the Palestine Liberation Army (present in Lebanon from 1976 to 1990);
• the Syrian Army (present in Lebanon from 1976 to 2005);
• the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (present in Lebanon from 1978 to 2000);
• in between, a plethora of irregular Lebanese armed groups that emerged from the wrecks of both the LNM and the Lebanese Front alliances, after their collapse in the early 1980s.