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Walid Jumblatt's militia forces overran between 31 August and 13 September 1983 sixty-two Maronite villages (including Bmarian, Bireh, Ras el-Matn, Maaser Beit ed-Dine, Chartoun, Ain el-Hour, Bourjayne, Fawara, and Maaser el-Chouf), slaughtered 1,500 folks and drove one other 50,000 out of their properties within the mountainous areas east and west of Beirut. Later on eight September 1988, the deputy for Jezzine within the Lebanese Parliament, Dr Farid Serhal, was seized by PLA militiamen at a checkpoint also within the Ouza'i district of West Beirut and pushed off to the Le Bristol Hotel Beirut in Rue Madame Curie, Ras Beirut, where he was quickly held hostage. Sayed Abdullah, Salimeh and Ras el-Matn within the Baabda District. In 1988, the PLA gained his best trophy when a Lebanese Air Force pilot, the Druze Lieutenant Majed Karameh, defected from Adma airfield located in the East Beirut canton, and flew his Aérospatiale SA 342K Gazelle assault helicopter to the Druze-controlled Chouf, where it was apprehended upon touchdown and transported by a PLA MAZ-537G tank transporter to the Saïd el-Khateeb Barracks at Hammana within the Baabda District. Spring Offensive' held towards East Beirut and Mount Lebanon, battling the Lebanese Front militias at the Aley District in March-April 1976. At the former location, the PSP Popular Commandos Forces allied with the Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) battled Internal Security Forces (ISF) and Army of Free Lebanon's (AFL) models throughout an unsuccessful try and raid the AFL Headquarters at the Shukri Ghanem Barracks complicated in the Fayadieh district.

From the Israeli withdrawal from the Chouf in 1983 to the end of the civil war in 1990, the PSP ran a extremely efficient and properly-organized civil service, the „Civilian Administration of the Mountain“ (CAM or CAOM), within the areas beneath its management (the Chouf and Aley Districts). Beiteddine was also the home of the PSP/PLA media providers, responsible for enhancing its official newspaper, „The News“ (Arabic: Al-Anba'a) and operated since February 1984 their own radio station, the „Voice of the Mountain“ (Arabic: Iza'at Sawt al-Djabal) or „La Voix de la Montagne“ in French. The stronghold of the PSP/PLA laid in the Jabal Barouk space throughout the Chouf, which they turned right into a semi-autonomous Canton within the early 1980s, identified unofficially as the 'Druze Mountain' (Arabic: Jabal al-Duruz). Simultaneously, they ordered Lebanese Army's artillery units positioned at east Beirut to shell their own troops' positions in the western Chouf, which wreaked havoc among 4th Infantry Brigade items and pressured them to fall again in disorder in direction of the coast while being subjected to pleasant fireplace.

Despite the hasty dispatch on 17 March of 4,000 Syrian Army troops from the Arab Deterrent Force (ADF) to keep the peace within the Chouf, it's estimated that about 177-250 Maronite villagers have been killed in reprisal actions (recognized as the Chouf massacres) on the towns of Moukhtara and Barouk, and on the villages of Mazraat el-Chouf, Maaser el-Chouf, Botmeh, Kfar Nabrakh, Fraydis, Machghara, Baadaran, Shurit, Ain Zhalta and Brih (St George's Church assault). In the course of the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon the PSP/PLA remained neutral, with Walid Jumblatt refusing to permit PLO items to function inside Druze territory and the PSP militia forces did not fought in opposition to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), despite the fact that they supported their arch-enemies the Maronite Kataeb Party and its navy arm, the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia. Kamal Jumblatt's opposition to the Syrian army intervention of June 1976 in support of the official Lebanese Government and his adversaries of the Christian Lebanese Front militias, resulted in the PSP/PLF fighting Syrian Army troops at the Battle of Bhamdoun within the Chouf District. Between thirteen and 17 October 1976, the Druze PSP's Popular Liberation Forces and their allies of the Sunni Al-Mourabitoun militia, the LAA and the PLO inflicted heavy losses on the Syrian 3rd Armoured Division when they tried to enter Bhamdoun by drive.

Lebanese Army in February 1976, plus a fleet of gun trucks and technicals. In late 1976, Druze „Commandos“ from the then Popular Liberation Forces (PLF) made an unsuccessful try on the life of Ahmad Safwan, the lider of the rival Shia Knights of Ali militia in West Beirut, which was enough to convince him to disband his own 400-robust militia shortly afterwards. In 1977, PLF militia forces had been additionally concerned within the fierce preventing that engulfed the northern port metropolis of Tripoli, clashing as soon as again with the Christian Lebanese Front militias and the Lebanese Army. Later on 24 July, the PLA battled once more the Al-Mourabitoun militia at West Beirut, until the fighting was curbed by the intervention of the predominately Shia Sixth Brigade. When the Coastal War broke out in March-April 1985, the PSP/PLA joined in a Syrian-backed coalition with the popular Nasserist Organization (PNO), the Al-Mourabitoun and the Shi'ite Amal Movement, which defeated the Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) attempts to ascertain bridgeheads at Damour and Sidon. When the Lebanese Civil War started in April 1975, as a member of the LNM the Druze PSP was an active founder of its army wing, the Joint Forces (LNM-JF), and during the 1975-77 part of the Lebanese Civil War, they had been closely committed in a number of battles. (Image: https://www.youtucams.com/2.jpg)