Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina ...
The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence” in the capital of Beirut, in the hopes that it would deter further bloodshed among the various warring factions and militias fighting for ...
Washington is openly pushing Lebanon towards instability by turning the process of forming Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s ...
the head of an association of fishers that operates along the coast south of Beirut. Marine life was decimated and only started recovering in the past few years, he said. In December, Lebanon’s ...
In March 1983, U.S. Marines were fired upon for the first time while patrolling areas near the Beirut airport. A Lebanese radio station later announced that "a militant Shiite Muslim faction ...
One wall in the back is blown open. "This is Jack Redden in Beirut." Ed Karrens: Among the Americans who died in the Embassy bombing was a U.S. Marine guard. In the months to follow, other Marines ...