Walid Jumblatt's militia forces overran between 31 August and thirteen September 1983 sixty-two Maronite villages (including Bmarian, Bireh, Ras el-Matn, Maaser Beit ed-Dine, Chartoun, Ain el-Hour, Bourjayne, Fawara, and Maaser el-Chouf), slaughtered 1,500 folks and drove one other 50,000 out of their homes within the mountainous areas east and west of Beirut. Later on eight September 1988, the deputy for Jezzine in the Lebanese Parliament, Dr Farid Serhal, was seized by PLA militiamen at a checkpoint additionally in the Ouza'i district of West Beirut and driven off to the Le Bristol Hotel Beirut in Rue Madame Curie, Ras Beirut, the place he was temporarily held hostage. Sayed Abdullah, Salimeh and Ras el-Matn within the Baabda District. In 1988, the PLA gained his best trophy when a Lebanese Air Force pilot, the Druze Lieutenant Majed Karameh, defected from Adma airfield positioned in the East Beirut canton, and flew his Aérospatiale SA 342K Gazelle attack helicopter to the Druze-controlled Chouf, the place it was apprehended upon touchdown and transported by a PLA MAZ-537G tank transporter to the Saïd el-Khateeb Barracks at Hammana within the Baabda District. Spring Offensive' held against East Beirut and Mount Lebanon, battling the Lebanese Front militias on the Aley District in March-April 1976. At the previous location, the PSP Popular Commandos Forces allied with the Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) battled Internal Security Forces (ISF) and Army of Free Lebanon's (AFL) units throughout an unsuccessful attempt to raid the AFL Headquarters at the Shukri Ghanem Barracks complex in the Fayadieh district.
From the Israeli withdrawal from the Chouf in 1983 to the top of the civil war in 1990, the PSP ran a extremely effective and well-organized civil service, the "Civilian Administration of the Mountain" (xxx cam or CAOM), within the areas beneath its management (the Chouf and Aley Districts). Beiteddine was additionally the home of the PSP/PLA media companies, responsible for modifying its official newspaper, "The News" (Arabic: Al-Anba'a) and operated since February 1984 their very own radio station, the "Voice of the Mountain" (Arabic: Iza'at Sawt al-Djabal) or "La Voix de la Montagne" in French. The stronghold of the PSP/PLA laid within the Jabal Barouk area inside the Chouf, which they turned into a semi-autonomous Canton in the early 1980s, identified unofficially as the 'Druze Mountain' (Arabic: Jabal al-Duruz). Simultaneously, they ordered Lebanese Army's artillery items positioned at east Beirut to shell their very own troops' positions within the western Chouf, which wreaked havoc among 4th Infantry Brigade items and pressured them to fall again in disorder in the direction of the coast whereas being subjected to pleasant fireplace.
Despite the hasty dispatch on 17 March of 4,000 Syrian Army troops from the Arab Deterrent Force (ADF) to keep the peace in the Chouf, it is estimated that about 177-250 Maronite villagers had been killed in reprisal actions (known as the Chouf massacres) at the towns of Moukhtara and Barouk, and on the villages of Mazraat el-Chouf, Maaser el-Chouf, Botmeh, Kfar Nabrakh, Fraydis, Machghara, Baadaran, Shurit, Ain Zhalta and Brih (St George's Church assault). During the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon the PSP/PLA remained impartial, with Walid Jumblatt refusing to allow PLO items to operate inside Druze territory and the PSP militia forces didn't fought against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), even though they supported their arch-enemies the Maronite Kataeb Party and its navy arm, the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia. Kamal Jumblatt's opposition to the Syrian military intervention of June 1976 in support of the official Lebanese Government and his adversaries of the Christian Lebanese Front militias, resulted within the PSP/PLF preventing Syrian Army troops on the Battle of Bhamdoun within the Chouf District. Between 13 and 17 October 1976, the Druze PSP's Popular Liberation Forces and their allies of the Sunni Al-Mourabitoun militia, the LAA and the PLO inflicted heavy losses on the Syrian third Armoured Division when they tried to enter Bhamdoun by force.
Lebanese Army in February 1976, plus a fleet of gun trucks and technicals. In late 1976, Druze "Commandos" from the then Popular Liberation Forces (PLF) made an unsuccessful try on the life of Ahmad Safwan, the lider of the rival Shia Knights of Ali militia in West Beirut, which was enough to convince him to disband his own 400-strong militia shortly afterwards. In 1977, PLF militia forces have been also involved within the fierce fighting that engulfed the northern port metropolis of Tripoli, clashing as soon as again with the Christian Lebanese Front militias and the Lebanese Army. Later on 24 July, the PLA battled again the Al-Mourabitoun militia at West Beirut, till the fighting was curbed by the intervention of the predominately Shia Sixth Brigade. When the Coastal War broke out in March-April 1985, the PSP/PLA joined in a Syrian-backed coalition with the popular Nasserist Organization (PNO), the Al-Mourabitoun and the Shi'ite Amal Movement, which defeated the Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) makes an attempt to ascertain bridgeheads at Damour and Sidon. When the Lebanese Civil War started in April 1975, as a member of the LNM the Druze PSP was an lively founding father of its navy wing, the Joint Forces (LNM-JF), and in the course of the 1975-77 section of the Lebanese Civil War, they were closely committed in several battles.