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entered the city and crushed the Tawheed militia, though it permitted Sha'ban to maintain leadership of his now unarmed movement. However, intermittent clashes occurred again in the Tripoli area during the Spring and Summer of 1986, this time between the IUM/Tawheed and the pro-Syrian faction of the
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or ADP, with the former been supported by the Mosques Committee and the Islamic Committee. The Tawheed's position was strengthened when they gained control of the port area on 22 August, after a fierce battle on the streets of Tripoli that left more than 400 dead. Street fighting dragged for some
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The defeat at the battle of Tripoli in December 1986 did not meant the end of IUM/Tawheed military activities at Beirut, Sidon, and southern Lebanon. Underground guerrilla cells continued to operate in these areas until the end of the civil war, and afterwards. From 1988 to 2000, the Movement's
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Upon the end of the war in October 1990, IUM militia forces operating in the Tripoli area, West Beirut and Sidon, were ordered by the Lebanese Government on 28 March 1991 to disband and surrender their heavy weaponry by 30 April as stipulated by the
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Shaaban and the IUM were careful not to antagonize the Syrian authorities, particularly after Syria defeated their militia in late 1986. He spoke favorably of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon as a framework for unified, armed action against
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and emphasizing that the path started by Khomeini should be followed by all Muslims, the IUM leadership does not call for the establishment of an Iranian-style order in Lebanon, knowing that this would alienate their own Sunni followers. Indeed,
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from Tripoli in December 1983, the Tawheed seized the opportunity to replenish themselves with vehicles, additional weapons and ammunition from PLO arms caches left behind. This enabled the IUM militia to raise a mechanized force made of ex-PLO
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units stationed in Lebanon – on 19 December, the Tawheed was involved in the massacre of 15 Syrian soldiers at a checkpoint in Tripoli, carried out in retaliation for the seizure by the Syrians of one of their commanders the previous day.
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and the Prophet's biography provide foundations on which all Muslim groups and sects can unite. Instead of arguing about sectarian representation in the parliament, he suggests that Muslims call for Islamic rule based on the
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militias, the Syrians managed to defeat decisively the Tawheed in another round of brutal fighting on the streets of Tripoli, killing many of its fighters, arresting others and scattered the remainder.
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was arrested by the Syrians and his men responded by killing 15 Syrian soldiers at a checkpoint, which brought the wrath of the Syrians on the Tawheed. Aided by a coalition of ADP, SSNP,
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Shaaban's speech delivered during the 3rd anniversary of Khomeini's death failed to mention his own relation to the latter and its theories. Following the 2020 killing of
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religious leaders. A hardliner who believed that force was a good solution in politics, the radical Shaaban broke away from the Islamic Group soon after the
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The IUM/Tawheed operated mainly on northern Lebanon, at Tripoli and its environs, though its militants were also active at the Sunni quarters of
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Fanatical and ruthless fighters, Tawheed militiamen were responsible for several acts of violence in Tripoli against the local cells of the
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sub-urban area east of the city. They also controlled the nearby clandestine port of al-Mahdi, set up at Tripoli's western outskirts at
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Its fighters consolidated their control over Tripoli in 1983–1984 by temporarily defeating a number of their secular left-wing and
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days until 18 September, when it was brought to an end by a Syrian-mediated peace agreement between the IUM and the ADP.
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in composition, the IUM's ideological anti-western and anti-Communist views stemmed from the radical Sunni wing of the
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and contacts with that Party’s leaders in Lebanon, which considers the IUM leader doctrinally a follower of
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political party. It has played an active role in Lebanese internal politics since the
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in the western part of Tripoli, where the group's headquarters is located, and the
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At the height of its power in 1985, the IUM splintered, when dissident leaders
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The Movement allegedly enjoyed since the mid-1980s close political ties with
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Violence flared up again on December 18, 1986 when the Tawheed commander
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The IUM militia was also able to raise a mechanized force made of ex-PLO
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On August 1984, violent clashes erupted between the IUM/Tawheed and the
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The IUM has its main strongholds at the predominantly Sunni district of
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backing, the IUM militia also seized some weapons and vehicles from the
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The Movement remains politically active, led by the Secretary-General
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IUM fighters were provided with a variety of small arms, comprising
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and then summarily shot them, dumping the victims' bodies into the
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and only later became a Sunni. While accepting the validity of the
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The IUM also run its own radio and television stations – the
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who, Shaaban himself asserted, would have otherwise fled to
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Grenade launchers and portable anti-tank weapons included
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Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions
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Index

Tawhid Movement

Lebanese Islamic Group
Islamic Labor Front
Bab al-Tabbaneh
Tripoli
Tripoli
Akkar
West Beirut
Sidon
Jabal Amel
Ideology
Islamism
Palestine Liberation Organization
Hamas
Hezbollah
Iran
Arab Democratic Party
Lebanese Communist Party
Popular Guard

Lebanese National Resistance Front
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Baath Party
Lebanon
Internal Security Forces
South Lebanon Army
Israel
Israel Defense Forces
Syrian Army

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