Like Israel, the Syrians had used the civil war to gain a foothold in Lebanon. They had intervened in 1976, first on the side of the Christians, then on the side of the PLO. With close Syrian ...

including the PLO and Hezbollah. Israel supported the Kataeb (Phalanges), a right-wing Christian political party and paramilitary group that came to power during Lebanon’s civil war. Israeli ...

During the first phase of the civil war there, in 1975–76 ... Israel put an end to that, and to the PLO presence in Lebanon, with its 1982 invasion, imposing a fresh ceasefire with the May ...

A year later, the region was plunged into conflict again when Israel pursued the PLO who'd set up base in Lebanon ... Suez and the arrival of the Cold War in the Middle East.