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

But instead of withdrawing forces, President Reagan deployed an additional 2,000 Marines to Beirut by mid-September 1983. The arrival in Lebanon of more American soldiers was met with swift and ...

Relatives of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in a 1983 Beirut bombing have been barred by a U.S. judge from seeking $1.6 billion in assets belonging to Iran's central bank and held by a unit of ...

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The scene in Beirut was dramatically different from that in 1984, when Marines left en masse from Lebanon a few months after a 1983 barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines.

Gratton’s life was taken at a base in Beirut, Lebanon, just before dawn on Oct. 23, 1983, when an Iranian terrorist drove his truck through a series of barriers (including a chain link fence and ...

The Beirut Memorial pays tribute to the 241 lives lost back in 1983 when barracks housing U.S. Marines, sailors, and members of the multinational force in Lebanon were bombed by suicide bombers.

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