Marcia C. Inhorn - Americas Arab Refugees
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| 1970: | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) arrives in Lebanon following Black September massacre of Palestinians in Jordan |
| 1975: | War officially begins in April between Christian Phalangists and PLO |
| 1976: | Arab League approves 40,000 Syrian troops as peacekeepers in Lebanon |
| 1978: | Israel invades southern Lebanon with aid of South Lebanon Army (SLA), a primarily Christian militia |
| 1982: | Israel launches full-scale invasion of Lebanon, occupying West Beirut, where it supports massacres by Phalangist militia in Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps |
| 1983: | Attack on the US embassy kills 63 people, followed by attacks on US and French military garrisons, leading to deaths of 241 US marines and 58 French soldiers |
| 1984: | Assassination of American University of Beirut President Malcolm Kerr by unknown assailants; US troops withdraw from the country |
| 19851989: | Most Israeli troops withdraw during period of intense fighting between shifting Muslim, Christian, and Druze factions |
| 1989: | Taif Agreement signed in Saudi Arabia to end war |
| 1990: | Civil war officially ends in October, although violence continues in early 1990s |
| 19902000: | Ongoing Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, including April 1996 Operation Grapes of Wrath, in which Israel bombs Hezbollah bases, killing more than 100 displaced civilians in the UN base in Qana |
| 2000: | Withdrawal of Israeli troops in May, after rapid advance of Hezbollah forces and collapse of SLA; political prisoners, including from the infamous Khiam Detention Center, are released |
| 2003: | US and British invasion of Iraq prompts anti-Western violence in Lebanon |
| 2005: | Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February draws international scrutiny and leads Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in April under international pressure |
| 2006: | Six-week summer war between Hezbollah and Israel inflicts heavy casualties |
| 2007: | Siege of Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared, following clashes between Islamist militants and Lebanese military |
| 2011: | Arab spring protests begin as Lebanese government collapses |
| 2012: | Syrian conflict, beginning in March 2011, spills over into Lebanon with deadly clashes between Sunni Muslims (opponents of Bashar al-Assad) versus Alawi and Shia militias (al-Assads supporters) |
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