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.

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

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

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 ...

Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing Fast Facts. By CNN Newssource. ... (CNN) — Here is a look at the 1983 bombing of a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel.

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." ...

The Beirut Marine barracks were targeted by the ... On that terrible day in 1983, ... Resnicoff will give the opening prayer in Congress as a way of remembering those lost in the Beirut bombing.

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 ...

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.