Photos Conflicts In Lebanon

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BEIRUT, LEBANON: Syrian soldiers flash the V-sign and hold up a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad onboard a truck on the Beirut-Damascus highway, north of Beirut, in Yarze 14 June 2001. Syrian troops based in Beirut and areas close to the Lebanese capital began to "redeploy" overnight in an operation scheduled to last several days, according to a senior Lebanese official. AFP PHOTO/Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON: Syrian soldiers guard their post in the southern suburbs of Beirut 25 March 2000. A war of words broke this week after the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar called on Syria, the power-broker in Lebanon, to start pulling its troops out of the country, insisting that Lebanon should not be sacrificed to Syria indefinitely as the price for peace in the Middle East. Syria has some 35,000 troops stationed in Lebanon since the early days of the 1975-90 civil war there. (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 5: A Syrian soldier empties his rifle into the sky over the southern suburbs of Beirut to celebrate the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 04 November. News of Rabin's death brought thousands of people into the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs, stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah which leads daily operations against Israeli troops occupying the border strip in south Lebanon. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON: Syrian soldiers work on Katyusha rockets in Yerze, north of Beirut, 14 June 2001. Syrian troops based in Beirut and areas close to the Lebanese capital began to "redeploy" overnight in an operation scheduled to last several days, according to a senior Lebanese official. AFP PHOTO/Ramzi HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON: A Syrian soldier stands 16 October 1990 behind sand bags near the Baabda presidential palace in east Beirut. Christian leader General Michel Aoun took refuge at French embassy in east Beirut after Syrian attack against his headquarters on Baabda presidential palace early 13 October. Aoun, who has been in exile in France since 1991, headed a military government between 1988-90 before he was forced to lay down his arms before a Lebanese-Syrian military coalition. He had declared a "war of liberation" against Syria, which still has 35 000 troops stationed in Lebanon and tightly controls the political scene. (Photo credit should read NABIL ISMAIL/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - OCTOBER 13: Syrian soldiers demonstrate 13 October 1990 their joy in front of Baabda presidential palace in Beirut, taking over Christian areas, formerly controlled by troops loyal to General Michel Aoun. Christian leader General Michel Aoun took refuge at French embassy in east Beirut after Syrian attack against his headquarters on Baabda presidential palace early 13 October. Aoun, who has been in exile in France since 1991, headed a military government between 1988-90 before he was forced to lay down his arms before a Lebanese-Syrian military coalition. He had declared a "war of liberation" against Syria, which still has 35 000 troops stationed in Lebanon and tightly controls the political scene. (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAYDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - OCTOBER 13: Two Syrian soldiers guard a group of prisoners of Michel Aoun's soldiers, formerly members of his personal guard 13 October 1990 in East Beirut. General Aoun surrendered to the Libanese army and took refuge in the French embassy in Beirut. (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAYDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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BEIRUT, LEBANON: Syrian soldiers demonstrate 13 October 1990 their joy in front of Baabda presidential palace in Beirut, taking over Christian areas, formerly controlled by troops loyal to General Michel Aoun. Christian leader General Michel Aoun took refuge at French embassy in east Beirut after Syrian attack against his headquarters on Baabda presidential palace early 13 October. Aoun, who has been in exile in France since 1991, headed a military government between 1988-90 before he was forced to lay down his arms before a Lebanese-Syrian military coalition. He had declared a "war of liberation" against Syria, which still has 35 000 troops stationed in Lebanon and tightly controls the political scene. (Photo credit should read NABIL ISMAIL/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldiers take position 17 April 1990 in one of West Beirut districts as they have been deployed after heavy inter-Shi'ite clashes between pro-Syrian Amal movement and pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia. In early June 1976, Syria launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon officially to end the civil war and restore peace. The Lebanese civil war erupted in April 1975. AFP PHOTO RABIH MOGHRABI & RAMZI HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RABIH MOGHRABI & RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian tankists standing a top a Russian-made tank, oversee 12 January 1990 march through southern Beirut suburb by pro-Iranian Hezbollah fighters, protesting inter-Shi'ite conflict with pro-Syrian Amal movement. In early June 1976, Syria launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon officially to end the civil war and restore peace. The Lebanese civil war erupted in April 1975. AFP PHOTO RAMZI HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldiers take position 17 April 1990 in one of West Beirut districts as they have been deployed after heavy inter-Shi'ite clashes between pro-Syrian Amal movement and pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia. In early June 1976, Syria launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon officially to end the civil war and restore peace. The Lebanese civil war erupted in April 1975. AFP PHOTO RABIH MOGHRABI & RAMZI HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RABIH MOGHRABI & RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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A soldier waits at his post after deployment of Syrian soldiers in the southern suburbs. On the building behind him hang photographs of Ayatollah Khomeini and Hafez al-Assad (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)

 

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A Syrian soldier on patrol in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, 1989. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldiers stand guard in a southern suburb of Beirut 28 May 1988, in front of the pro-Iranian-backed Hezbollah ("Party of God") poster, after heavy inter-Shi'ite clashes erupted between pro-Syrian Amal movement and Hezbollah militia. In early June 1976, Syria launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon officially to end the civil war and restore peace. The Lebanese civil war broken out in April 1975. AFP PHOTO RABIH MOGHRABI (Photo credit should read RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Beyrouth-Ouest, déploiment des soldats syriens dans la banlieu sud (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)

 

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Two Syrian soldiers wearing uniforms and carrying machine guns are standing on a Beirut street beneath a mural featuring Shia cleric Mousa Sadr, and another cleric who has been defaced. | Location: South Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)

 

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An armed Syrian soldier is standing on a Beirut street with a torn poster of Shia cleric Mousa Sadr behind him. | Location: South Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldier patrols in a southern suburb of Beirut 28 May 1988, passing a wall-painting of the Iranian imam Khomeyni after heavy inter-Shi'ite clashes erupted between pro-Syrian Amal movement and pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia. In early June 1976, Syria launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon officially to end the civil war and restore peace. The Lebanese civil war broken out in April 1975. AFP PHOTO RABIH MOGHRABI (Photo credit should read RABIH MOGHRABI/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldiers set up a mortar artillery position in West Beirut on the coast road surrounding the city on February 23, 1987 in Jnah, Lebanon. (Photo by Kamel LAMAA / AFP) (Photo by KAMEL LAMAA/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Syrian soldier and an old member of the pro-Syria Amal militia, the first political organization of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim, stand guard next to a portrait of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in west Beirut 24 February 1987. In February 1987, fierce fighting took place in west Beirut between Amal forces and an alliance of the Druze, Murabitoun, Hezbollah and Communist Party militias. Muslim leaders appealed for Syria to intervene to restore order. 22 February about 7,500 Syrian "pacification" troops were deployed in west Beirut and succeeded in enforcing a cease-fire in the central and northern districts of west Beirut. 24 February, Syrian troops moved into areas of west Beirut occupied by Hezbollah militiamen, killing 23 of them, but did not venture into the southern suburbs where Hezbollah had its greatest influence. On the following day Syria claimed that all 75 militia offices in west Beirut had been closed. (Photo credit should read KAMEL LAMAA-NABIL ISMAIL/AFP via Getty Images)