The death toll of the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing would come close to matching that number, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three U.S. soldiers -- 241 troops in all.

1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’ At 6:22 on Sunday morning Oct. 23, 1983, a 19-ton yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck entered a public parking lot at the heart of Beirut ...

On March 8, 2023, French authorities asked Lebanese judicial officials to detain two people, Yousef al-Khalil and Sanaa al-Khalil, for their alleged involvement in the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983.

The Weekly Podcast: Presidents and the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing. Program ID: 531068-1 Category: Radio Format: Compiled Program Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

A new book showcases how the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, paved the way for America's war on terrorism.

And as Jack Carr and James M Scott, reveal in “Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror” (Atria), it is a terrorist attack that ...

FORGOTTEN HISTORY. Beirut Bombing 1983 - US Marine Barracks. Posted: May 20, 2025 | Last updated: June 15, 2025. A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping ...

The first book in the series, "Targeted: The 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing," is published this week, on Sept. 24, 2024, by Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books, a division of Simon & Schuster — and ...

Two people from South Carolina were there for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings and survived. Their stories are featured in new book, "Sitting Ducks." ...

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 group is 274 survivors of the 1983 Beirut barracks and 1996 Khobar Towers bombings. They should receive $116 million from a federal fund for terrorist victims, according to one office’s ...