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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 ...
Claude Salhani (March 25, 1952 – August 13, 2022) was born in Cairo. He was a Lebanese, French & American photographer for United Press International (UPI) and Reuters news agencies, later head of UPI Photos and UPI Foreign Desk Editor as well as policy expert and author, best known for his photographic reportage of the 23 October 1983 Beirut barracks bombings on the United States Marines.
The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard .
The Beirut Memorial is a memorial to the 241 American peacekeepers—220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers—killed in the October 23, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. It is located outside the gate of Camp Gilbert H. Johnson , a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , in Jacksonville, North Carolina .
Bikfaya bombing (February 13) – A bomb on a bus near Bikfaya killed 3 people and wounded 21 others. [20] ABC bombing (May 20) – Explosives placed near the ABC mall in Achrafieh killed 1 civilian and wounded 18 others. [21] Verdun bombing (May 21) – An explosion in the affluent Beirut district of Verdun injured 10 people including 2 children.
Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, reducing many of them to clusters of grey craters, according to satellite ...
Ames was killed on April 18, 1983, when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the United States embassy in Beirut.A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion, including Ames, the CIA Lebanon station chief and his deputy, as well as six other CIA officers and eight other Americans.
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