Lebanese Resistance Regiments

Lebanese Resistance Regiments أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية
Participant in Lebanese civil war (1975-1990)
Lebanese Resistance Regiments flag (1975-1991)
Active	Until 1991
Groups	Lebanese National Movement
Leaders	Musa al-Sadr, Hussein el-Husseini, Nabih Berri
Headquarters	Rue Hamra (Beirut), Maghdouché
Strength	16,000 fighters
Originated as	1,500 fighters
Allies	Lebanese National Movement (LNM), Lebanese Arab Army (LAA), Popular Nasserite Organization (PNO), People's Liberation Army (PLA), Popular Guard, Toilers League, Zgharta Liberation Army (ZLA), Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Syrian Army
Opponents	Lebanese Front, Lebanese Forces, Lebanese Army, Al-Mourabitoun, Sixth of February Movement, Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon (OCAL), People's Liberation Army (PLA), Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Syrian Army, South Lebanon Army (SLA), Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

The Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Arabic: أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية‎‎ | Afwaj al-Muqawama al-Lubnaniyya, AMAL), also designated Lebanese Resistance Battalions, Lebanese Resistance Detachments, Lebanese Resistance Legions and Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise (BRL) or Légions de la Resistance Libanaise (LRL) in French, but simply known by its Arabic acronym Amal which means "Hope", were the military wing of the Movement of the Dispossessed or Movement of the Deprived, a political organization representing the Muslim Shia community of Lebanon. The movement's political wing was officially founded in February 1973 from a previous organization bearing the same name and its military wing was formed in January 1975. The Amal militia was a major player in the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1991. The militia has now been disarmed, though the movement itself, now known as the Amal Movement (Arabic: Harakat Amal), is a notable Shia political party in Lebanon.

The Amal militia was founded in 1975 as the militant wing of the Movement of the Disinherited, a Shi'a political movement founded by Musa al-Sadr and Hussein el-Husseini a year earlier. It became one of the most important Shi'a Muslim militias during the Lebanese Civil War. Amal grew strong with the support of, and through its ties with, Syria and the 300,000 Shi'a internal refugees from southern Lebanon after the Israeli bombings in the early 1980s. Amal's practical objectives were to gain greater respect for Lebanon's Shi'ite population and the allocation of a larger share of governmental resources for the Shi'ite-dominated southern part of the country.