Marines Fall to Truck Bomb: Beirut Claims 241 Lives
A truck bomb detonates against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, slaughtering 241 American service members while a simultaneous strike on the French army base claims 58 lives. This coordinated massacre forces the United States to withdraw its peacekeeping forces from Lebanon within weeks, effectively ending the multinational intervention and leaving the country's civil war to fester without external mediation.
October 23, 1983
43 years ago
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Lebanese Civil War
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Lebanon Civil War
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1983 Beirut barracks bombing
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US Marines
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Hezbollah
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Beirut, Lebanon
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