Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions
| Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions | |
|---|---|
| Participant in Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) | |
| Active | Until 1988 1990–present |
| Ideology |
Marxist-Leninism (Predominantly Christian) |
| Groups | Jammoul, Lebanese National Salvation Front (LNSF) |
| Leaders | Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Robert Abdallah, Maurice Abdallah, Emile Abdallah |
| Headquarters | Al-Qoubaiyat |
| Size | 30 fighters |
| Allies | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Lebanese National Salvation Front (LNSF), Hezbollah, Syrian Army |
| Opponents | Lebanese Forces, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), South Lebanon Army (SLA) |
The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions – LARF (Arabic: الفصائل المسلحة الثورية اللبنانية | Al Fasael al-Musallaha al-Thawriyya al-Lubnaniyya) or Fractions armées révolutionnaires libanaises (FARL) in French, was a small Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group which played an active role in the Lebanese Civil War.
Formed in 1979, the LARF emerged from the break-up of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), a joint Lebanese/Palestinian radical guerrilla faction, upon the assassination by the Israeli Mossad of its leader and founder Wadie Haddad in March 1978. In the 1980s it was responsible for a series of attacks on French, American, and Israeli officials in Lebanon and Western Europe. LARF's leader, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, was sentenced to life imprisonment in France in 1987, and the group's attacks ceased soon after.
Modelled after parent western militant leftist/urban guerrilla organizations, the LARF was made of left-wing Maronite Christian activists who had previously fought with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (noms de guerre "Salih al-Masri", "Abdul-Qadir Sa'adi"), a former school teacher; after being arrested by the French authorities in 1984, he was replaced by a collective leadership trio formed by his younger brothers' Robert, Maurice, and Emile. Based at his home town of Al-Qoubaiyat in the Akkar District of northern Lebanon and financed by Syria, the LARF aligned by 1981 some 30 active members specialized in urban guerrilla warfare, organized into scattered cells of three to five militants.
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