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 ...

(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 ...

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 have ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024 marked 41 years since the Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 military personnel. It is the single deadliest day for the Marine Corps since the ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C.- (WNCT) The Jacksonville community, Beirut veterans and gold star families all gathered at Lejeune Memorial Gardens Thursday to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Beirut Barracks ...

William J. “Bill” Sickles Jr., a veteran of the Beirut peacekeeping effort during the Marine Barracks Bombing in 1983, recently died at his home in Willoughby. During his time in the Marine Corps from ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Jacksonville is honoring families and survivors affected by the Beirut barracks bombings with their yellow ribbon campaign. Early Wednesday morning Onslow County students ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- It was America's first encounter with the suicide bomb -- initially its embassy, then its Marine barracks, blasted to shreds by a truckload of explosives that killed 241 servicemen ...

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 ...