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Zahliote Group

Zahliote Group – ZG
مجموعة زحلوتي
LeadersAziz Wardeh
Dates of operation1975–1978
HeadquartersZahlé
Active regionsZahlé, Beqaa Valley
Size500 fighters
Part ofLebanese Front
Lebanese Forces
Allies Kataeb Regulatory Forces
Al-Tanzim
Lebanon Lebanese Army
Lebanon Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Israel Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
OpponentsLebanon Lebanese National Movement (LNM)
Lebanese Arab Army (LAA)
Zgharta Liberation Army (ZLA)
Free Tigers militia
Palestine Liberation Organization Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Syria Syrian Army
Battles and warsLebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
Preceded by
100 fighters

The Zahliote Group – ZG (Arabic: مجموعة زحلوتي | Majmueat Zhlouty) or Groupement Zahliote (GZ) in French, was a small Lebanese Christian militia raised in the Greek Catholic town of Zahlé in the Beqaa Valley, which fought in the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1981.


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جماعة زحلة Arabic Agrupación de Zahliotas Spanish

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