The Brutal Lebanese Civil War in Photographs, 1975-1989

Children play in a street in Beirut on January 28, 1976, as the blockade of the two main Palestinian camps was lifted following the January 22 agreement by which the Palestinian resistance committed to respecting the sovereignty of the Lebanese state without exception over the entire territory, during the Lebanese civil war.
Subjected to a confessional institutional system, Lebanon plunged in April 1975 into a civil war involving several religious communities, each developing their own militia, and regional and international actors (PLO, Syria, Israel, UN, USA) and resulted in a succession of civil wars with alliances in perpetual metamorphosis. The Taif Agreement, signed in 1989, officially ended the civil war.

August 28, 2025 | 10:50 pm