Phalangist Movement

The Phalangist Movement or Phalange Movement, colloquially known as The Phalange, is a far-right Christian political party in the Arab Union that has been outlawed since 1990 by the government of the Arab Union, which considers it a terrorist organisation alongside Islamist extremist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda. Founded in 1960 in Lebanon by extremist Maronite Christians, the majority Christian denomination in Lebanon, the movement grew to include most other Arab Christian groups in the Arab Union during the 1980s and 1990s, and today is the largest and most powerful far-right Christian movement in the Arab Union.

The Phalange Movement in 2018 counted a membership totalling at least 118,430, making it one of the largest illegal political movements in the Arab Union. It has its own paramilitary wing, the New Phalangist Army (NPA), which during the Arab Civil War fought against the Arab Army and its allies.