List of wars involving Lebanon

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Lebanon.

War	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Syria–Lebanon campaign (1941)	United Kingdom India Assyrian Levies Mandatory Palestine Palmach Transjordan Australia Free French Czechoslovakia	Vichy France Syria Lebanon Germany	Allied victory
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Yemen All-Palestine Protectorate File:Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg HWA ALA File:Arab Liberation Army (bw).svg Arab Liberation Army al-Najjada Holy War Army	Israel Yishuv File:Haganah Symbol.svg Haganah Palmach File:Hish Symbol.svg Hish File:Him Symbol.svg Him File:Irgun.svg Irgun File:Logo of the Lehi movement.svg Lehi Allied Bedouin tribes File:Badge of the Israel Defense Forces.svg Israel Defense Forces File:Logo gdud herev.png Minorities Unit Mahal	Defeat (limited involvement) 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state; Jordanian rule of the West Bank, Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip
Lebanon Crisis (1958)	Government Lebanese Armed Forces Kataeb Party Syrian Social Nationalist Party Tashnag United States	Opposition Najjadeh Party Progressive Socialist Party Lebanese Communist Party Al-Mourabitoun Soviet Union United Arab Republic	Government victory Reconciliation government formed
Coup d'état attempt (1961)	Lebanese Government	SSNP-L	Government victory Failed coup attempt
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt(UAR) Jordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Kuwait	Israel	Defeat (Minor involvement) Israel captures and occupies the Golan Heights, the West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982)	Israel Free Lebanon South Lebanon Army Lebanese Front Kataeb Party	PLO Syria LNM Supported by: Soviet Union	Israeli and Lebanese victory PLO ousted from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War, relocated to Tunis.
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)	LF Syria Tigers Militia ALZ Israel SLA United States France Italy United Kingdom	LNM LNRF Amal LCP SSNP PLO Hezbollah Al-Tawhid Syria PLA ADF	Taif Agreement Christian 6:5 ascendancy replaced by 1:1 representation Defeat of PLO and LNM, peace agreement between other internal militias Syrian occupation of Lebanon and the Israeli Security Zone
South Lebanon Conflict (1985–2000)	Hezbollah Amal Jammoul	Israel SLA	Hezbollah victory Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon
Shebaa Farms conflict (2000–2006)	Hezbollah	Israel	Inconclusive Ended with the 2006 Lebanon War Israel continues to control the Shebaa Farms
July War (2006)	Hezbollah	Israel	Stalemate The LAF introduced into South Lebanon
Fatah al-Islam Rebellion (2007)	Lebanon	Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham	Victory Defeat of the militants
May clashes (2008)	Future Movement Progressive Socialist Party	Hezbollah	Hezbollah victory Doha Agreement
Israel–Lebanon border clash (2010)	Lebanon	Israel	Ceasefire Withdrawal of both armies
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon (2011–2017)	Lebanon Hezbollah	Syrian opposition Tahrir al-Sham Islamic State	Victory Islamist groups expelled from Lebanon
Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–ongoing)	Hezbollah Hamas PIJ PFLP	Israel	Ceasefire Elimination of much of Hezbollah's leadership and military capabilities IDF withdraws south of the Blue Line and Hezbollah withdraws north of the Litani River LAF becomes sole army in Southern Lebanon

Other armed conflicts involving Lebanon

• 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon
• 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon
• Hundred Days' War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• 1978 South Lebanon conflict (also known as Operation Litani, part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Battle of Zahleh (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Mountain War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• War of the Camps (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• 1982 Lebanon War (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
• Cedar Revolution 2005 (Attacks linked to the Cedar Revolution)
• 17 October Revolution
• 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes