Arab Deterrent Force

As inter- Arab security force and Arab security forces under the mandate of the Arab League and standing, consisting of military units of several League member states peacekeepers were called. Unofficially, the peacekeeping forces of the Arab League because of the green color of their helmets were referred to as " Green Helmets ", analogous to the " blue helmets " of the United Nations, where green but should stand for an Islamic or Arab color.

Arab League Security Forces in Kuwait

Immediately after the independence of Kuwait from Britain Qasim, the Iraqi regime in 1961 made ​​historical claims on Kuwait claims and threatened with an invasion and annexation of Kuwait. Then returned in July 1961, British troops back (Operation Vanguard ) to defend Kuwait if necessary. In August 1961, the Arab League decided to replace the British troops by military contingents of Arab States. The first units from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Sudan and Egypt came in September 1961 in Kuwait, the last British withdrew in October 1961. Only after the fall Qasim in Iraq and the official recognition of Kuwait by the Iraqi Baathist regime in 1963 withdrew the last Arab contingents from Kuwait.

Arab Deterrent Force

When it became clear at the height of the Lebanese civil war and after the breakup of the Lebanese army a victory for the Muslim majority and more left-wing patriotic militias and the PLO over the mostly Christian and right militias, Syrian troops invaded in June 1976 at the request of the Christian Lebanese president the Lebanon. Syria had strategic reasons no interest in a victory of the Lebanese National Movement, which if necessary can also provoke an Israeli intervention in favor of the right militias. The first 12,000, then 23000-30000 man and initially mainly composed of PLA units Syrian troops immediately made Libya a small contingent to the side, because Libya wished no action by the Syrians against the national movement.

Subsequently the Syrian forces gave the Arab League summit in Riyadh and in Cairo in October 1976, a mandate for an " Arab deterrent force" (force Arabe de dissuasion, FAD, قوات الردع العربية ). The Syrians in the security force should be accompanied by contingents of other states, the security force are themselves formally under the command of the Arab League. But most Arab states declared themselves unable to send troops - Iraq pointed to the tensions with Syria; Algeria and Morocco felt threatened each other as well as Libya and Egypt. So only symbolic Hundreds of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the VDRJ and the UAE were added.

Since the other Arab states withdrew their contingents soon ( be the first nor Libya in 1976, the last in 1979 Sudan), the troupe was henceforth exclusively of Syrians. She could not the country against Israeli invasions (1978, 1982) defend, but attacked repeatedly in intra-Lebanese and inter-Palestinian fighting and eventually ended in 1990 with the defeat of the Lebanese Army and in 1991 with the disarmament of the Palestinian camp of the civil war. Although the Lebanese government and the Lebanese president had not extended the mandate expiring in 1983, the Syrian troops in 2005, were deducted after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri on Arab and international pressure.