2007 Lebanon conflict

2007 Lebanon conflict
Part of the War on terror[1][2][3]
The shelling of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
Date 20 May – 7 September 2007 Location Fighting: Nahr al-Bared, Tripoli, Ain al-Hilweh Bombings: Beirut, Aley, Zouk Mosbeh Attack on UNIFIL: Khiam Result Lebanese victory
Belligerents
Lebanese Armed Forces Internal Security Forces Supported by:  United States	Fatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham
Commanders and leaders
Michel Suleiman Francois al-Hajj Chamel Roukoz Antoine Pano Saleh Kais Georges Nader Georges Chreim Hanna Makdessi	Shaker al-Abssi † Abu Youssef Sharqieh (POW) Abu Hureira †
Strength
4,000 troops	450 Fatah militants, 50 Jund militants
Casualties and losses
Northern casualties: 168–179 killed,[4][5] 400–500 wounded[6] Southern casualties: 2 killed, 6 wounded	Fatah al-Islam casualties: 226 killed, 215 captured[5] Jund al-Sham casualties: 5 killed Bomber cells: 7 killed, 18 captured
Civilian casualties: 55 killed in the fighting, 12 killed in the bombings International Red Cross: 2 killed UNIFIL: 6 soldiers killed, 2 wounded

The 2007 Lebanon conflict began when fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist militant organization, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on May 20, 2007 in Nahr al-Bared, a UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.

It was the most severe internal fighting since Lebanon's 1975–90 civil war. The conflict revolved mostly around the siege of Nahr el-Bared, in addition to clashes that occurred in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon and other bombings that took place in and around the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Fighting ended in September 2007.