South Lebanon Army
The South Lebanon Army (SLA; Arabic: جيش لبنان الجنوبي, romanized: Jayš Lubnān al-Janūbiyy), also known as the Lahad Army (جيش لحد) or as the De Facto Forces (DFF), was a Lebanese Christian-dominated rebel paramilitary organization founded by Lebanese military officer Saad Haddad in 1977, during the Lebanese Civil War. Initially formed as a splinter rebel group when it broke away from the Army of Free Lebanon (a Christian splinter rebel faction founded and led by former Lebanese army officers), it evolved to operate as a paramilitary during the South Lebanon conflict, basing itself in Haddad's unrecognized State of Free Lebanon.