A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) ...

How the Beirut bombing has echoed through decades of American foreign policy frames the central thesis of "Targeted: Beirut: ...

Rescue and clean-up crews search for casualties following the barracks bombing in Beirut on October 23, 1983. (Department of Defense) But shortly after the withdrawal, the assassination of the ...

In March 1983, U.S. Marines were fired upon for ... The devastation of the barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, left Marines searching through tons of rubble for their missing comrades.

Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah terrorist targeted in Beirut airstrike, took part in the 1983 bombing of the US barracks in Beirut that killed 241 US servicemen.

James M. Scott is coauthor of "Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War On Terror," which is available now from Atria/Emily Bestler Books ...

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