1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’ Later that month, the United States pulled the final Marines from the peacekeeping force out of Lebanon.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh told border agents her respect for Hassan Nasrallah is spiritual, not political. But the two are ...

On Oct. 23, 1983, Marine Cpl. Thurnell “Chip” Shields lay on his cot on the third floor of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines battalion landing team headquarters in Beirut when he was awakened by ...

Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina ...

Thirty-nine years ago, Iran-sponsored terrorists drove a truck laden with explosives into the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. service members — 220 Marines, 18 ...

Marine Sgt. William H. Pollard, left, was 24 when he died, one of the 241 U.S. troops killed in the Oct. 23, 1983 bombing attack on Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, the single deadliest day for the ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, July 16, 1958. It is republished unedited in its original form. BEIRUT — A battalion of American Marines swarmed ashore on ...

At the Beirut Memorial at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, they paused to remember on Wednesday. "Though they are gone from our eyes, these Marines and sailors are not lost from ...

Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, whom Israel says was killed on Friday, was wanted for bombing the U.S Marine barracks and embassy in Beirut in 1983.

It was springtime 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, just barely a month after the bombing of the U.S. Embassy. A young U.S. Marine corporal from Providence paid a visit to an even younger U.S. Marine ...

In this Oct. 25, 1983, file photo, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Paul Kelley, left, awarded the Purple Heart to Marines wounded in the terrorist bombing in Beirut during a ceremony at the Wiesbaden ...

The Marines landed in Beirut in 1982 as a stabilizing force. The idea is if the Americans are there as a peacekeeping force along with the French, Italians and British, that we can provide some ...