The Lebanese Resistance Regiments (ʾAMAL), also designated Lebanese Resistance Battalions, Lebanese Resistance Detachments, Lebanese Resistance Legions and Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise (BRL) or Légions de la Resistance Libanaise (LRL) in French, but simply known by its Arabic acronymʾAmal which means "Hope", are the military wing of the Movement of the Dispossessed or Movement of the Deprived, a political organization representing the Muslim Shia community of Lebanon.
The movement's political wing is officially founded in February 1973 from a previous organization bearing the same name and its military wing is formed in January 1975.
The Amal militia is a major player in the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1991.
The militia has now been disarmed, though the movement itself, now known as the Amal Movement (Arabic: Harakat Amal), is a notable Shia political party in Lebanon.
