A handshake between Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan, in the presence of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, on March 3, 2006, during a dialogue meeting in Beirut. (Credit: AFP archive photo)
September 1986. Red bandanas bearing the slogan "On the road to Jerusalem" in Persian — alongside a map showing that the route passed "through Iraq and Lebanon" — were found after a series of attacks in the hills targeting the men of Antoine Lahd. Having become the new strongman of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) following the death of its founder Saad Haddad, Lahd had controlled, since the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops in 1985, a security belt stretching along the border with Israel.The final chapters of Lebanon’s Civil War had yet to close. Palestinian militias had left the country three years earlier, in 1983, but a new force — the "Party of God" — had emerged from the country’s internal conflicts, and above all from the Israeli invasion of 1982. In Beirut, the May 17, 1983, non-belligerency agreement...
September 1986. Red bandanas bearing the slogan "On the road to Jerusalem" in Persian — alongside a map showing that the route passed "through Iraq and Lebanon" — were found after a series of attacks in the hills targeting the men of Antoine Lahd. Having become the new strongman of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) following the death of its founder Saad Haddad, Lahd had controlled, since the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops in 1985, a security belt stretching along the border with Israel.The final chapters of Lebanon’s Civil War had yet to close. Palestinian militias had left the country three years earlier, in 1983, but a new force — the "Party of God" — had emerged from the country’s internal conflicts, and above all from the Israeli invasion of 1982. In Beirut, the May 17, 1983,...
