Early this September, Michael Stringent invited me and my family camping in upstate New York. I was not sure about it because this was no ordinary trip. It was a reunion for Beirut veterans, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina wire ...

When reflecting on times of national tragedy, we have adopted a common question: Where were you? Where were you when the second plane hit the World Trade Center? Where were you when President John F.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen. Alfred M. Gray Jr., who died on March 20, 2024, at the age of 95, was seen as a legend for his heroism in combat. But despite ...

A yellow Mercedes truck blows through a wire barrier and crashes into a Marine barracks near Beirut International Airport. “I caught only a glimpse of the driver as he passed by,” one witness recalls.

Israel eliminated Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah terrorist commander involved in the 1983 killing of almost 250 U.S. service members. Share ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - Behind the stone walls here of the Beirut Memorial, fog filtered in Saturday through a grove of Bradford pear trees planted 40 years ago to commemorate the deaths of more than 270 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, a terrorist drove a truck filled with explosives up to the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The ensuing explosion leveled ...

(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 ...