Marine Corps Times on MSN3mon
How the Beirut bombing of a Marine Corps barracks changed everything
Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina ...
FORGOTTEN HISTORY on MSN14d
Beirut Bombing 1983 - US Marine Barracks
A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) ...
US Air Force looks to upgrade Cyprus airbase as humanitarian staging post for the Middle East
Cyprus, which is only 184 kilometers from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has acted as a transit point for the repatriation of ...
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A History of Hezbollah
In March 1983, U.S. Marines were fired upon for the first time while patrolling areas near the Beirut airport. A Lebanese radio station later announced that "a militant Shiite Muslim faction ...
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Marine Bustros and Fadlo Dagher, of DHP Architecture, restore an iconic 19th-century church in the heart of Beirut
This past year, the building was refurbished by interior designer Marine Bustros and Fadlo Dagher ... by the 2020 port explosion which rocked Beirut. The building suffered structural damage ...