the 10th Brigade during the Mountain War was deployed at east Beirut, where it was held in reserve and ready to support the other LAF Brigades in the field as required. On February 13, 1984, the 101st Ranger Battalion was rushed to the western portion of the Shahhar region to reinforce the beleaguered units of the 4th Brigade, who were fighting desperately to retain their positions at Aabey, Kfar Matta, Ain Ksour, and Al-Beniyeh while sustaining a wave of ground assaults by the Druze People's Liberation Army (PLA) militia led by Walid Jumblatt. The Liberation War 1989–1990 During the 1989–1990 Liberation War, the 10th Brigade fought alongside the 8th Brigade against an alliance of Druze PSP/PLA, pro-Syrian Lebanese Forces – Executive Command (LFEC) and Palestinian militias backed by the Syrian Army at the second battle of Souk El Gharb on August 13, 1989. The militias' ground offensive was preceded by a massive and sustained Syrian artillery barrage on the positions held by Aounist troops, who repulsed the assault by inflicting some 20-30 casualties on the PSP/PLA attackers. The Elimination War 1989–1990 The 13 October 1990 offensive and the end of the civil war The post-civil war years 1990–present Upon the end of the war in October 1990, the 10th Infantry Brigade was re-integrated into the structure of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). See also Army of Free Lebanon (AFL) Lebanese Armed Forces Lebanese Civil War Lebanese Forces List of weapons of the Lebanese Civil War Mountain War (Lebanon) Progressive Socialist Party People's Liberation Army (Lebanon) 1st Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 2nd Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 3rd Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 4th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 5th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 6th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 7th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 8th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 9th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 11th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) 12th Infantry Brigade (Lebanon) Notes References Aram Nerguizian, Anthony H. Cordesman & Arleigh A. Burke, The Lebanese Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Syria Lebanon, Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), First Working Draft: 10 February 2009. – Are J. Knudsen, Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?, CMI INSIGHT, November 2014 No 9, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen – Norway. – Denise Ammoun, Histoire du Liban contemporain: Tome 2 1943–1990, Éditions Fayard, Paris 2005. (in French) – Histoire du Liban contemporain, tome 2: 1943–1990 Edgar O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon 1975–92, Palgrave Macmillan, London 1998. Éric