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.

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 ...

On Oct. 23, 1983, U.S. Marines were targeted in a terrorist bombing attack on their Beirut barracks — 241 servicemen died that day 40 years ago. Bestselling author Jack Carr tells the story.

"This past Sunday, at 22 minutes after 6 Beirut time, with dawn just breaking, a truck, looking like a lot of other vehicles in the city, approached the airport on a busy, main road. There was ...

A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) in war torn Lebanon. The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence ...

The barracks attack came just months after more than 60 people were killed during a bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut. Roger Viollet via Getty Images ...

I arrived in Beirut on Friday Oct 21 to hold a memorial service for SSGT Allen Soifert, the first Jewish Marine to die there during our operations as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force.

Forty years after the bombing that killed 241 troops in Beirut, the U.S. is again sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean amid tension between Israel and Iran.

The Beirut Marine barracks were targeted by the Islamic Jihad, which was basically Hezbollah, whose missiles since Oct. 7 have brought Israel’s northern border – and the region – to the ...