Tyous Team of Commandos

Tyous Team of Commandos
فريق التيوس من المغاوير
Leader
Joseph Hanna (a.k.a. Al-Anid) Elie Hobeika
Dates activeUntil 1985
HeadquartersAchrafieh (Beirut)
Active regionsEast Beirut, Mount Lebanon
IdeologyLebanese nationalism
Ultranationalism
Anti-communism
Anti-Palestinianism
Anti-pan-Arabism
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
Size3500 fighters
Part ofLebanese Front
Lebanese Forces
WarsLebanese Civil War

The Tyous Team of Commandos – TTC (Arabic: فريق التيوس من المغاوير| Fariq Tyous min' al-Maghawir) or simply Tyous for short ('Tyous' means 'Male Goat' in Arabic, also translated as the "Stubborn Ones"; "Les Têtus", "Les Obstinés" in French), was a small Christian militia which fought in the 1975–78 phase of the Lebanese Civil War.