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

Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Early on a Sunday morning on Oct. 23, 1983, a truck packed with 12,000 pounds of explosives was driven into a building in Beirut, Lebanon, housing troops of the 1 st Battalion 8 th Marines ...

"Targeted: Beirut" is a masterful combination of thorough research and gripping drama describing the 1983 Marine barracks bombing that left 241 servicemen dead.

SC marines survived the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings. In a new book, they look back. By Dawson Baker Special to The Post and Courier; Sep 20, 2024 Sep 20, 2024 Updated Sep 20, 2024; ...

Marines in Wonderland. On “Red Beach” at Khalde, five miles south of Beirut, began one of the strangest of all Marine operations since the first leathernecks landed in the Bahamas back in 1776.

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 ...