Lebanese Front

Lebanese Front
الجبهة اللبنانية
Leaders Pierre Gemayel
Camille Chamoun
Suleiman Franjieh (until 1978)
Dates of operation1976–1986
Group(s) Kataeb Party
National Liberal Party
Marada Movement (until 1978)
Guardians of the Cedars
Al-Tanzim
Lebanese Youth Movement (MKG)
Tyous Team of Commandos
Zahliote Group
Shuraya Party
Vanguard of the Maani Army (MDJ)
(Other minor organizations)
HeadquartersBeirut
Active regionsBeirut
Mount Lebanon
North Lebanon
IdeologyLebanese nationalism
Anti-communism
Anti-pan-Arabism
Factions:
Christian nationalism
Falangism
Phoenicianism
Anti-Arabism
Anti-Palestinianism
Size20,000 (1976)
AlliesIsrael Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)
Army of Free Lebanon (AFL)
South Lebanon Army (SLA)
Lebanese Army Revolutionary Command (LARC)
Lebanese Armed Forces (sometimes)
Lebanon Internal Security Forces (ISF) (sometimes)
Syrian Armed Forces (until 1978)
OpponentsLebanon Lebanese National Movement (LNM)
Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF)
Palestine Liberation Organization Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Lebanese Communist Party (LCP)
People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)
Marada Movement (from 1978)
Syria Syrian Armed Forces (from 1978)
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1976–1986)

The Lebanese Front (Arabic: الجبهة اللبنانية, romanizedal-Jabha al-Lubnaniyya) was a coalition of mainly right-wing Lebanese Nationalist parties formed in 1976 by majority Christian groups during the Lebanese Civil War.[1] It was intended to act as a reaction force to the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) of Kamal Jumblatt and other left-wing allies.

  1. ^ Itamar Rabinovich (1985). The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985. Cornell University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-8014-9313-3. Retrieved 22 October 2012.