Front of Patriotic and National Parties

Front of Patriotic and National Parties جبهة الأحزاب الوطنية والوطنية
no Image Front of Patriotic and National Parties logo (1976-1982).
Leaders	Musa al-Sadr, Kamal Shatila
Dates of operation	Until 1982
Headquarters	Beirut
Allies	Syrian Army
Opponents	Lebanese Front, Lebanese National Movement (LNM), Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)
Battles and wars	Lebanese civil war (1975-1990)

The Front of Patriotic and National Parties – FPNP (Arabic: جبهة الأحزاب الوطنية والقومية | Jabhat al-Ahzab al-Wataniyya wal-Qawmiyya) or Front Patriotique des Parties Nacionaux (FPPN) in French, 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) and the Kurdish Razkari Party.

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

• Lebanese Civil War
• Lebanese National Movement
• Lebanese National Salvation Front
• Jammoul

References

• Edgar O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. ISBN 0-333-72975-7
• Rex Brynen, Sanctuary and Survival: the PLO in Lebanon, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. – [1]