The scene around the U.S. Marine Corps base near Beirut, Lebanon, following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base on Oct. 23, 1983. (AP Photo) Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah ...

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 ...

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.

Lebanese officials were drafting a response on Tuesday to U.S. demands for armed group Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Wednesday marked the 41st anniversary of one of the worst days in United States Marine Corps history. On October 23, 1983, a group called Islamic Jihad -- later found to ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the 1983 bombing of a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel. On October 23, 1983, 241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines ...

The October 23, 1983 terrorist attack on the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon killing 241 members of America’s military, most of them Marines from Camp Lejeune. A new book co-authored by ...

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

In a week where Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon — and launched a ground offensive in the southern region of the country — a new book revisits the 1983 terrorist ...

In this Oct. 24, 1983, file photo, U.S. Marines and an Italian soldier dig through the rubble of the battalion headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, working around the clock searching for victims of ...

Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina wire fence at the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, detonating a ...