The Brigade also fielded a logistics battalion, equipped with US M151A2 jeeps, Land-Rover long wheelbase series III, Chevrolet C20 and Dodge Ram (1st generation) pickups, and US M35A2 2½-ton (6x6) military trucks.

Instead, the LAF Northern Command tasked the Second Brigade of internal security operations in Tripoli, where tensions remained high between local Islamist and secular Left-wing militias following the departure of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrilla factions in December 1983.

[11] In mid-December 1984, the LAF Command issued an operational order which called for the deployment of the Lebanese Army to Tripoli as part of a security plan devised for the port city and the north.

Second Brigade's battalions began to conduct military vehicle patrols on the streets and set up roadblocks and checkpoints in sensitive areas, in order to search civilian automobiles and passers-by.

Life returned to a measure of normalcy and economic activities were resumed, allowing the city's residents to concentrate themselves in the repairing of public infrastructures damaged or destroyed during the fighting, such as buildings and roads.

Aided by a coalition of ADP, SSNP, Lebanese Communist Party/Popular Guard, and Baath Party militias, the Syrians managed to defeat decisively the Tawheed in another round of brutal fighting on the streets of Tripoli, killing many of its fighters, arresting others and scattered the remainder.