[1] In 1983 the group joined the PFLP, DFLP and the Palestinian Communist Party in forming the Democratic Alliance in Aden.

[3][4] In January 1984 the PLF office in Damascus was stormed by the Ghanim faction and Talat Yaqub was held hostage.

[1] Along with the PFLP, the group left the Democratic Alliance and joined the pro-Syrian Palestinian National Salvation Front instead.

[1] At the 18th session of the Palestinian National Council, a plan to reunify the Talat Yaqub and Abu Abbas wings was announced.

[1] In 1993 the PLF (Abu Nidal Ashqar wing) rejected the Oslo Accords and left the PLO for the anti-Oslo Alliance of Palestinian Forces (APF).