Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina wire fence at the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, detonating a deadly ...
(CNN) — Here is a look at the 1983 bombing of a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel. On October 23, 1983, 241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines and 21 ...
Rabbi Arnie Resnicoff, serving as a Navy chaplain, was in shoes, camo pants and white T-shirt brushing his teeth at 6:22 a.m. in a field base in Beirut when a massive suicide truck bomb blew up the ...
In a week where Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon — and launched a ground offensive in the southern region of the country — a new book revisits the 1983 terrorist ...
(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Mike Pence marked the anniversary of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, during a visit to the Marine barracks in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 23, 2017.
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) – The Marine Corps’ top general said Wednesday the deadly Beirut barracks bombing 30 years ago helped define the start of America’s war against terrorists. Marine Corps ...
Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed. Dedicated in 2020, the ...