In 1978 the Israeli Operation Litani in southern Lebanon was partly directed against LNM militias, then fighting alongside the PLO after relations improved with Syria. In June 1982, the Movement was virtually dissolved after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and replaced by the Lebanese National Resistance Front – LNRF (, "Jabhat al-Muqawama al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya"), which commenced resistance operations against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in September of that same year.