| January 3, 1981 | | After its withdrawal from Ain El Remmaneh on October 31, 1980 the Army repositioned on the main road axes in the region.
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| January 5, 1981 | | Militiamen led by the dissident officer Saad Haddad bombarded the locality of Hasbaya, causing important damages.
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| January 5, 1981 | | Michel Rocard, member of the French Socialist Party's national secretariat met with President Elias Sarkis, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Chafic Wazzan, as well as with the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat.
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| January 8, 1981 | | The Arab Strike Force withdrew from Zahleh.
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| January 9, 1981 | | A new phase of the war started in Lebanon: the war of televisions. The 'Lebanese Forces' wanted to broadcast under the name 'Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation' and the Mourabitun seemed to be willing to give them hard time. As a result, they both emitted on the same channel and thus jammed the image.
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| January 18, 1981 | | Jean Francois Revel, the director of the French weekly magazine L'Express, left Beirut after a 48-hour visit. He declared before his departure: 'The actual drama in Lebanon is the result of the convergence of external factors rather than an internal crisis'.
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| January 19, 1981 | | Three blue helmets of the UNIFL were assassinated East of Tyr.
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| January 21, 1981 | | 20,000 displaced persons from Damour participated in a peaceful walk towards the presidential palace to claim their return home.
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| January 23, 1981 | | Combats were raging between militiamen from the Amal movement and the Popular Palestinian Liberation Front (PPLF) in Chyah.
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| January 28, 1981 | | President Elias Sarkis delivered a speech at the Third Islamic States Summit in Taef, where he headed the Lebanese delegation. He declared: 'Lebanon cannot bear anymore the Palestinian armed presence on its land'.
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| January 29, 1981 | | The Israeli aviation bombarded Saida and Nabatyeh for two days. An artillery duel opposed the 'Common Forces' to the militiamen of Saad Haddad. These Israeli bombardments killed 14 and injured 30 others.
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| January 31, 1981 | | A violent storm hit Lebanon.
50 cars were totally stuck between Sofar and Mdeirej and their occupants spent the night in their vehicles. The Army was able to rescue 200 persons in the mountain. |
| February 4, 1981 | | Four Lebanese militaries were killed in a helicopter accident. The Aircraft crashed on the hills of Sannine.
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| February 13, 1981 | | The kidnapping on February 6 in Beirut of the chargé d'affaires of Jordan in Lebanon, remained at the center of preoccupation of the country's leaders. They adopted a series of security measures for the protection of embassies.
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| February 13, 1981 | | A Syrian-Israeli air duel took place in the sky of the Bekaa region.
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| February 14, 1981 | | Snipers paralyzed the circulation in Sodeco, the main road connecting East and West Beirut.
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| February 18, 1981 | | The Council of Ministers centered part of its deliberations to the Sodeco region that was catching fire on a daily basis. Chafic Wazzan pledged to cease the fire.
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| February 19, 1981 | | His Beatitude Bishop Maximos V Hakim escaped a killing attempt on the road of Bhamdoun. The aggressors' identity was unknown.
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| February 24, 1981 | | Shells from different calibers fell on the Eastern residential neighborhoods, spreading destruction, fires, and terror. The population wondered why these blind bombardments were perpetrated and until when would they continue.
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| March 1, 1981 | | The city of Saida went through a day of fear and anguish after four bombs fell in its busiest streets, and especially after Saad Haddad threatened to bomb the city. The next day, the fighting spread to Southern Lebanon.
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| March 6, 1981 | | A TNT load exploded in Zahleh inside a travel agency, killing three persons and injuring 28 others.
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| March 10, 1981 | | The convoy of the United States ambassador in Lebanon skimmed automatic arm shots in the port's sector.
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| March 13, 1981 | | A Lebanese Army unit positioned in the Kantara locality following an agreement with the UNIFL commandant. On March 15, 50 soldiers deployed in the village of Chaqra. However, Saad Haddad was opposed to the reinforcement of the Army in the South.
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| March 16, 1981 | | Israel retorted at the Lebanese decision to send the Army to the frontier region by bombarding the UNIFL. The United Nations Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim was outraged and requested an urgent Security Council meeting.
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| March 17, 1981 | | After the last bombardments in Southern Lebanon, the Army pulled back 15 km away from Kantara but redeployed again on March 20.
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| March 20, 1981 | | The United Nations Security Council condemned Saad Haddad without mentioning Israel.
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| March 23, 1981 | | Violent confrontations burst in Baalbeck between Amal and the Iraqi Baas.
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| March 28, 1981 | | After Sodeco and Berjaoui, the confrontations spread to the Museum sector. The Syrians imposed a cease-fire and tried to compel militiamen to withdraw from Ras El Nabeh.
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| April 2, 1981 | | The Lebanese will remember this date for long time. Violence brought back to Beirut the darkest experiences of 1975-1976. Blind bombardments targeted the Eastern and Western sectors of the capital. Thousands of students were trapped in their schools and the population panicked. There were heavy casualties: 50 persons died and more than 200 were wounded.
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| April 4, 1981 | | An intensive bombardment in Zahleh killed 20 and injured 100.
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| April 7, 1981 | | The Arab Strike Force maintained it pressure on Zahleh by bombarding it for the seventh consecutive day.
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| April 8, 1981 | | A shell storm fell on East Beirut particularly in Badaro, Ain El Remmaneh and Chyah. Several bombs hit H™tel-Dieu leaving important damages.
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| April 9, 1981 | | For the first time in Zahleh since the beginning of the confrontations, the Red Cross was able to evacuate 19 persons seriously injured.
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| April 10, 1981 | | During his meeting in Strasbourg, the European Parliament called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon, except for the UNIFL.
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| April 10, 1981 | | Israel bombarded Delhamiye and Arab Salim killing 16 persons.
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| April 12, 1981 | | Following several days of violent confrontations with the Phalange militia, the Arab Strike Force completed its occupation of the most strategic hills of Zahleh. The supply channels between the capital of the Bekaa and Mount Lebanon were closed.
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| April 20, 1981 | | The situation was worsening in Lebanon. Violence unleashed in the South where artillery duels and air raids on Nabatyeh and Saida killed 16 and injured 33. Sporadic bombardments shred the silence in Zahleh. East Beirut was violently shelled and bombings spread to Nahr El Kalb causing five deaths and 32 wounded.
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| April 22, 1981 | | The nightmare continued. The Lebanese authorities were completely powerless to stop the violence and the conflicting parties were unable to reach an agreement. The Beirut International Airport was closed to traffic and both dead and wounded victims continued to shed their blood on this agonizing Lebanese land.
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| April 27, 1981 | | Residential areas in Beirut were the target of sporadic bombardments that killed six persons and injured 90 others.
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| April 28, 1981 | | While the Syrian Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam met with President Chamoun, Pierre Gemayel and members of the Islamic Union at the Baabda palace, Israeli airplanes bombed new positions occupied by the Syrian Army on Mount Sannine's peak. The Israeli forces shot down two Syrian helicopters.
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