War of Brothers

War of Brothers; حرب الأخوة
Date	April 1988 – November 1990
Location	Southern Lebanon, Beirut and Beqaa Valley
Result	Inconclusive Later reconciliation between the two parties;
Belligerents
Amal Movement; Lebanese Resistance Regiments; Supported by: Syria Syrian Army;	Hezbollah; Lebanese Islamic Resistance; Supported by Iran IRGC;
Strength
15,000–30,000 (only a few engaged)	25,000 (only a few engaged)
Casualties and losses
	Between 500 and 750 dead 2000+ 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.

^ ^a ^b Wagner, Abraham; Cordesman, Anthony H. (2020). The Lessons Of Modern War: Volume I: The Arab-israeli Conflicts, 1973-1989. Routledge. ISBN 9781000302943.
^ Nir 2011, p. 72.

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[modernwar-1] Wagner, Abraham; Cordesman, Anthony H. (2020). The Lessons Of Modern War: Volume I: The Arab-israeli Conflicts, 1973-1989. Routledge. ISBN 9781000302943.

[FOOTNOTENir201172-2] Nir 2011, p. 72.

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