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2. 1983 Beirut barracks bombings - Wikipedia

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   6 June 1982 – Israel undertakes military action in Southern Lebanon: Operation "Peace for Galilee." 23 August 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected to be Lebanon's president. 25 August 1982 – A MNF of approximately 400 French, 800 Italian soldiers and 800 marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) are deployed in Beirut as part of a peacekeeping force to oversee the evacuation of ...

3. 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut - Wikipedia

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   The April bombing was not the first suicide attack in the region. In December 1981 a suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi embassy in Beirut. Around 30 people were killed, among them the Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon. Another 95 people were injured. [10] In December, 1982, a suicide bomber blew up the Israeli army headquarters in Tyre. Around 75 ...

4. List of attacks in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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   1983 United States Embassy bombing (April 18, 1983) – The American Embassy in Beirut was bombed. 63 people, including 17 Americans, lost their lives in the attack. 1983 Beirut barracks bombing (October 23, 1983) – The Beirut barracks bombing killed more than 200 American and French armed-forces personnel.

5. 40 years after bombing that killed Americans in Beirut, US ...

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   On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber hit an American military barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines – still the deadliest attack on ...

6. Israeli strikes batter Beirut in heaviest bombardment so far ...

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   BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli air attacks battered Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and early on Sunday in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply ...

7. Israeli invasion of Lebanon (2024–present) - Wikipedia

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   Nine people were killed and 24 others were wounded in Israeli strikes on the Lebanese villages of Maaysrah, in the mountains north of Beirut, and Barja, south of Beirut. [272] Israel also struck the central commercial area of Nabatieh in the south. The Lebanese Red Cross said it was initially unable to reach the area of the strike due to large ...

8. Death toll in Beirut strike rises to 37 as Israel-Hezbollah ...

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   In 2015, the U.S. placed a $7-million bounty on Akil’s head for his role in the twin bombings in 1983 on the U.S. embassy in Beirut and U.S. Marine barracks, which collectively killed 370 people.

9. 1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut - Wikipedia

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   In July 1984, the United States had relocated its embassy operations from West Beirut to the relative security of Aukar, a Christian suburb of East Beirut. [1] When on September 20, 1984, the attacker sped his van laden with 3,000 pounds (1360 kg) of explosives toward the six-story embassy, crucial security measures had not yet been completed at the complex, including a massive steel gate.