Front of Patriotic and National Parties

Front of Patriotic and National Parties
جبهة الأحزاب الوطنية والقومية
LeadersMusa al-Sadr, Kamal Shatila
Dates of operation1976 – 1982
Group(s) Amal Movement
SSNP (pro-Syrian faction)
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region (pro-Syrian faction)
Union of Working People's Forces (UWPF)
Razkari Party
HeadquartersBeirut
AlliesSyria Syrian Army
Opponents Lebanese Front
Lebanon Lebanese National Movement (LNM)
Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Lebanon Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)
Israel Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1975-1990)

The Front of Patriotic and National Parties – FPNP (Arabic: جبهة الأحزاب الوطنية والقومية | Jabhat al-Ahzab al-Wataniyya wal-Qawmiyya) was a Syrian-backed coalition of Lebanese Political parties and militias formed in the late 1970s.

Origins

It was formed in late March 1976 at West Beirut by breakaway sections of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM), which included the pro-Syrian factions of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP) and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region, the Shia Amal Movement led by Musa al-Sadr, Kamal Shatila's Union of Working People's Forces (UWPF)[1][2] and the Kurdish Razkari Party. The FPNP supported the June 1976 Syrian intervention in Lebanon.[3][4]

Decline and demise

The alliance lasted until mid-1982, when it collapsed together with their LNM rival in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bitterlin, La flamme et le soufre (1988), p. 139.
  2. ^ Rabinovich, The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985 (1989), pp. 82–83.
  3. ^ Bitterlin, La flamme et le soufre (1988), p. 139.
  4. ^ Rabinovich, The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985 (1989), pp. 82–83.

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