| 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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| May 5, 1981 | | The Lebanese Syrian plan outlined three main stages: The national understanding, the settlement of the conflict between Beirut and Damascus, and the organization of the relation with Palestinians.
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| May 7, 1981 | | About 7,000 reinforcement Syrian troops were dispatched to the Bekaa region, to prepare against an eventual Israeli offensive.
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| May 8, 1981 | | The American envoy Philip Habib began his talks at the Baabda Palace.
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| May 9, 1981 | | Both sectors in Beirut witnessed a day of terror. Blind bombardments caused 21 dead and 98 wounded. The shelling reached Jounieh, Bkerkeh, and Beit Mery.
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| May 11, 1981 | | Once again, the civil population of East and West Beirut was under siege. The criminal violence claimed the lives of 18 persons and injured another173. A war psychosis haunted the Bekaa region where the residents were fleeing from the areas next to the SAM anti-aircrafts missiles deployed by the Syrian forces, fearing a Syrian-Israeli confrontation.
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| May 12, 1981 | | SAM missiles were launched against Israeli spy airplanes.
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| May 12, 1981 | | The Lebanese stock exchange market panicked as the dollar's exchange rate increased up to 4.45 LP.
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| May 13, 1981 | | A car bomb exploded in Chyah killing 6 and injuring 32 in addition to important material damages.
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| May 16, 1981 | | The Soviets and the Americans reinforced their military presence in the Mediterranean.
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| May 16, 1981 | | Washington advocated a fast resolution of the missile crisis to avoid a worsening of the situation. Beirut was hit by one bomb every three seconds. Twenty-seven persons were evacuated from Zahleh during a lull period.
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| May 17, 1981 | | Words were no longer enough to describe the horror of the war. How to describe the endless artillery duels, the depression of civilians buried in shelters, the magnitude of destructions? The guns didn't stop for 9 continuous hours on both sides of the dividing lines; 25 persons were killed and 118 wounded. What was at stake in this endless battle of Beirut?
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| May 18, 1981 | | While the civilian population continued to pay the high price of Man's madness, a Saudi solution plan was put into place. It stipulated the maintenance of SAM missiles in the Bekaa region, the progressive withdrawal of the Arab Strike Force from Lebanon, the limitation of Palestinian activities in the South and the reinforcement of the Lebanese central authority.
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| May 22, 1981 | | While the US envoy Philip Habib continued his trips between the different belligerents, the missile question seemed to be far from being settled as the parties concerned toughened their positions.
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| May 28, 1981 | | Following the departure of the American envoy, the Israeli aviation bombarded Palestinian bases in Damour causing hundred of dead or injured victims.
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| May 29, 1981 | | According to the American information service, 150 Libyan soldiers were in Lebanon for some time. Arafat declared that the Palestinian Resistance detained SAM missiles.
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| June 1, 1981 | | Blind bombardments hit the seaside resorts of Maameltein, Ouzaï and Manara. 18 people were killed and 270 were wounded.
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| June 1, 1981 | | According to a study by Maroun Baghdadi , more than 80 parties and political organizations were disputing the power or bits of the power in Lebanon. Among them organizations, committees, unions more or less homogeneous, more or less ephemerals, more or less clandestine; some were born with the war, others had disappeared because of it.
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| June 5, 1981 | | A generalized blaze of fire in Beirut and its suburbs kept spreading death.
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| June 8, 1981 | | The Arab Vigilance Committee, ending its meetings in Beiteddine, took note of all the parties' commitment to respect the cease-fire on the Lebanese territory. On the other hand, the Committee announced that it would meet again on June 23 in Saudi Arabia and on July 4 in Beiteddine.
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