7 October 1986
☠Assassination of Sheikh Subhi al-Saleh
Beirut & suburbs#Assassinations
PartiesMuslim forces (generic)Lebanese state (presidency, cabinet, parliament)
On 7 October 1986 Sheikh Subhi al-Saleh, deputy head of the Higher Islamic Sharia Council, was shot dead in West Beirut; he was one of the most prominent Sunni scholars and an advocate of dialogue, and the perpetrators were never identified.