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 ...

On Aug. 25, 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the deployment of the Marines to Beirut amid the Lebanese Civil War.

This year marked the 41st anniversary of the devastating terrorist attack of the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. The tragedy of that day marked not only the biggest single-day loss of ...

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 ...

A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) in war torn Lebanon. The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence” in ...

In a week where Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon — and launched a ground offensive in the southern region of the country — a new book revisits the 1983 terrorist ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice. In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded. In 1944, allied forces and the French ...