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 deadly ...

(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 and 21 ...

The nine Rhode Islanders killed in the bombing of the Marine barracks on Oct. 23, 1983. The overall mission of U.S. Marines in Lebanon commenced in August 1982 in the middle of a civil war. Competing ...

Rabbi Arnie Resnicoff, serving as a Navy chaplain, was in shoes, camo pants and white T-shirt brushing his teeth at 6:22 a.m. in a field base in Beirut when a massive suicide truck bomb blew up the ...

Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed. Dedicated in 2020, the ...