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Popular Guard
الحرس الشعبي
LeadersGeorge Hawi, Elias Atallah
Dates of operation1970–1990; briefly in 2006
Group(s)Lebanese Communist Party
Lebanese National Movement (LNM), Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF)
HeadquartersZarif (Beirut), Houla (Southern Lebanon)
Active regionsBeirut, Akkar District, Koura District, Southern Lebanon, Houla (Southern Lebanon)
Size5,000 fighters
AlliesState of Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Popular Guard Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP)
Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL)
Popular Guard Lebanese Arab Army (LAA)
Popular Guard Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Popular Guard Progressive Socialist Party (PSP)/ People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Popular Guard Syrian Army
Popular GuardHezbollah
OpponentsPopular Guard Lebanese Forces
Tigers Militia
Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF)
Tyous Team of Commandos (TTC)
Guardians of the Cedars (GoC)
Popular Guard Army of Free Lebanon (AFL)
Israel Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
South Lebanon Army (SLA)
Amal Movement
Popular Guard Al-Mourabitoun
Sixth of February Movement
Islamic Unification Movement (IUM)
Popular Guard Syrian Army
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
Preceded by
600–700 fighters

The Popular Guard or Popular Guards – PG (Arabic: الحرس الشعبي | Al-Harās al-Sha‘abī) was the military wing of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), which fought in the 1975–1977 phase of the Lebanese Civil War and subsequent conflicts. The LCP and its militia were members of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) and its successor, the Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF).

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