Over 100 Lebanese refugees were killed by the shelling of a UN base at Qana, in what the Israeli military said was a mistake.

In the ensuing fifteen years, Damascus and Beirut justified Syria's continued military presence in Lebanon by citing the continued weakness of a Lebanese armed forces faced with both internal and external security threats, and the agreement with the Lebanese Government to implement all of the constitutional reforms in the Taif Agreement.

The Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon was criticised by some on Lebanon's right-wing inside and outside of the country, others believed it helped to prevent renewed civil war and discourage Israeli aggression, and others believed its presence and influence was helpful for Lebanese stability and peace but should be scaled back.

The elections, the first for 33 years without the presence of Syrian military forces, were won by the Quadripartite alliance, which was part the Rafik Hariri Martyr List, a coalition of several parties and organizations newly opposed to Syrian domination of Lebanese politics.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

In 1943, prior to the declaration of Lebanese independence, all the military units were combined in one brigade, the Fifth Brigade, under the command of General Fouad Chehab.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ' strength lies in their ground forces which is by far the largest of the three branches of the military.

The Lebanese Armed Forces has six official military colleges and schools that serve a wide variety of functions from officer training to overseeing national youth conscription programs.

At the request of Lebanese President Hrawi, the Syrian military took joint action with the Lebanese Armed Forces on 13 October 1990, to oust rebel Gen. Michel Aoun who had defied efforts at reconciliation with the legitimate Government of Lebanon.

* October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government.

In November, he brokered an agreement between the PLO and the Lebanese military granting the Palestinians the right to use Lebanese territory to attack Israel.

* Lebanese Republican Guard, a military force attached to the Directorate-General of the Presidency of Lebanon

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, but after the French mandate ended in 1946, the land was administered by Syria, and represented as such in all maps of the time, including 1949 Armistice Agreement maps and Syrian and Lebanese military maps.

A Lebanese military map, published in 1966, showing the Shebaa Farms as being on the Syrian side of the border

* Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

* Ending the military presence of several Lebanese and non-Lebanese groups such as Hezbollah, Palestinian armed militias and other Islamists, and call for their immediate decommissioning.

Ending the military status of several Lebanese and non-Lebanese groups such as Hezbollah, Palestinian armed militias and other Islamists groups, and call for their immediate disarmament.

In 1996 Israel launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, blocking important Lebanese harbour cities and bombing a Syrian military base.

The Israeli occupied sector of the mountain is patrolled by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police, and the Israeli Security Forces maintain a strategic observation post for monitoring Syrian and Lebanese military activity near Mitzpe Shlagim (" Snow Lookout "), which is at an elevation of about 2, 224 m ( 7, 300 ft ).

In 1623, the prince was betrayed by the Harfouch family who made arrangements with Mustafa Pasha, Mirmiran of Damascus, to launch an attack against him, resulting in the battle at Majdel Anjar where Fakhr-al-Din's forces although outnumbered managed to capture Pacha and secure the Lebanese prince and his allies a much needed military victory, and he took over Syria and Palestine from the Turks.

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Palestinian terror claimed 106 lives in northern Israel from 1967, according to official IDF statistics, while the Lebanese army had recorded " 1. 4 Israeli violations of Lebanese territory per day from 1968 – 74 " Where Lebanon had no conflict with Israel during the period 1949 – 1968, after 1968 Lebanon's southern border began to experience an escalating cycle of attack and retaliation, leading to the chaos of the civil war, foreign invasions and international intervention.

In Resolution 425, the UN had set a goal of assisting the Lebanese government in a " return of its effective authority in the area ", which would require an official Lebanese army presence there.

After gaining independence in 1943, the Lebanese government formed an official delegation in 1944 to negotiate with the French the terms related to handing over the LAF.

Lebanese games organiser Gabriel Gemayel conceded to this, but sidestepped the ruling by holding a parallel Lebanese Games comprising athletics events between the present nations alongside the official Mediterranean Games competitions.

On the 7th, Lebanese soldiers belonging to the Army of Free Lebanon ( AFL ) – a splinter faction of the official Lebanese Army led by the rightist dissident Colonel Antoine Barakat – objected to the ADF establishing a checkpoint near their HQ at the main Fayadieh barracks, a forteress-like military facility located in the namesake Christian district.

The official registration rules say that it is necessary to have a Lebanese trademark certificate for the exact name being registered ( omitting the TLD and second-level label the name is being registered within ) and the trademark owner must be a Lebanese entity.

:* Hold the official Lebanese Secondary School Certificate in a branch relevant to the chosen undergraduate field of specialization, or an official equivalent ;

The official MP of the ADL party in the Lebanese Parliament after the 2009 elections is Jean Ogassapian as part of the same March 14 Alliance, although he is not a card-holding member of the party.

The first Lebanese official complaint about the use of phosphorus came from Information Minister Ghazi Aridi.

* National Broadcasting Network ( Lebanon ) is the official television of the Lebanese Amal Movement

At the end of the war an official Lebanese government reported that the total number of casualties for these battles was put at 3, 781 dead and 6, 787 injured in the fighting between Amal and the Palestinians.

In Lebanon, French was an official language until 1941 and the main dialect spoken there is Lebanese French or Levantine French.

The attack was to occur in July 2006 and involved a 21-year-old Lebanese man, identified only as Youssef Mohammed E. H. Prosecutors said Youssef and another man left suitcases stuffed with crude propane-gas bombs on the trains.

Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon that damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport ( which Israel said that Hezbollah used to import weapons and supplies ), an air and naval blockade, and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah was responsible for thousands of Katyusha rocket attacks against Israeli civilian towns and cities in northern Israel, which Hezbollah said were in retaliation for Israel's killing of civilians and targeting Lebanese infrastructure.

Lebanese MP Antoine Zahra said that the issue is another item " in the endless list of excuses " meant to justify the continued existence of Hezbullah's arsenal.

During the departure ceremonies, Gen. Ali Habib, Syria's chief of staff, said that Syria's president had decided to recall his troops after the Lebanese army had been " rebuilt on sound national foundations and became capable of protecting the state.

" If the U. S. and friendly countries help us achieve the withdrawal of Israel from Shebaa farms, this would make it possible for the Lebanese forces to be the sole owner of weapons and arms in the country ," Lebanese Prime Minister Foaud Seniora said.

Those comments were echoed by Lebanese President Émile Lahoud who said that " the resistance should be kept until a just and comprehensive peace is achieved in the region ", adding that " if the Lebanese army were deployed along the borders ( with Israel ) ... it would be turned into a police force to protect Israel's borders, and this is not acceptable.

Former Vice President of Syria Abdel-Halim Khaddam, in an interview with the Lebanese Future Television on August 27, 2006, said: " Saying that the farms are occupied, and hence cannot be demarcated, is nothing but a pretext.

" Rød-Larsen described his meetings since 18 August with Lebanese leaders as " encouraging ," and said they were committed to implementing Security Council Resolution 1701, which requires that Israeli troops withdraw from south Lebanon at the same time that Lebanese army troops and a beefed-up U. N. force of 15, 000 troops enter the area.

He said 3, 000 of a planned complement of 15, 000 Lebanese soldiers have already been deployed along Lebanon's southern border, though their success in stabilizing the region is by no means guaranteed.

" Another 2, 000 Lebanese soldiers — the first complement of an expected 8, 600 — have been deployed along the country's eastern border with Syria, and as many as 1, 000 have been deployed along the coast, he said.

A mechanism has been set up for both forces to work together, Rød-Larsen said, with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora agreeing with UNIFIL force commander Gen. Alain Pellegrini to meet weekly with top security officials from both forces.

The United Nations special envoy to Syria and Lebanon said on 22 August 2006 it could take the Lebanese army and international troops two to three months to fill a " security vacuum " in southern Lebanon and warned that " unintended " acts could spark renewed fighting.

" There is now a security vacuum which the Lebanese government is trying to fill " with the help of international forces, said Terje Rød-Larsen.

Lebanese parliament member Al-Hajj Hassan, a member of Hezbollah, said: " This is a lie and a fabrication.

The conference, which took place at the start of February, was also said to have been attended by senior members of the Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian intelligence services who presented a list of Israeli intelligence officials to be assassinated.

This pitted him against President Émile Lahoud and the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah of which he said: " Their fighters have done a good job defying and defeating the Israeli army, OK, but the question we ask is where their allegiance goes: to a Lebanese strong central authority or somewhere else?

In 2005, the Lebanese Prime Minister said of Hezbollah, it " is not a militia.

Lebanese people are dancing with Israelis – without war, without anything in their minds other than treating each other respectfully ", said van Dyk in 2006.

Latuff was born in São Cristóvão ( Rio de Janeiro ), Brazil, and is of Lebanese ancestry ; in his own words he said he has " Arab roots ".