War of Brothers

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War of Brothers حرب الأخوة
Date April 1988–November 1990 Location South Lebanon, Beirut and Beqaa Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Syria Supported by Amal	Hezbollah Supported by  Iran
Strength
16,000–30,000[1] (only a few engaged)	28,500[1] (only a few engaged)
Casualties and losses
Couple hundred according to foreign 2100+ Amal fighters wounded/dead 500+ Hezbollah fighters wounded/dead

The War of Brothers (Arabic: حرب الأخوة; Harb al-Ikhwa)^{[n 1]} was a period of violent armed clashes between rivals Amal and Hezbollah, Lebanon's main Shiite militia movements, during the final stages of the Lebanese Civil War. The fighting broke out in April 1988 and proceeded intermittently in three phases over the following years until the signing of an agreement brokered by their respective foreign backers, Syria and Iran, in November 1990.

The Amal Movement was formed in 1974 as the armed wing of popular Shiite cleric Musa al-Sadr's Movement of the Dispossessed. Amal supported the intervening Syrian army against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Hezbollah, on the other hand, which began as an umbrella organization consisting of more conservative elements of Lebanon's Shiite community, was born in 1982 in reaction to Israel's invasion and occupation of South Lebanon. As the Amal-initiated "War of the Camps" against the PLO ended, Hezbollah and its rival Amal began clashing in South Lebanon and in Beirut's southern suburbs.

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