1983 United States Embassy Bombing

1983 United States Embassy Bombing

First Phase

  • Bus massacre
  • Hotels
  • Black Saturday
  • Karantina
  • Damour
  • Tel al-Zaatar

Second Phase

  • Hundred Days' War
  • 1978 South Lebanon conflict
  • Ehden
  • Safra
  • Zahleh campaign

Third Phase

  • 1982 Lebanon War
  • Sabra and Shatila
  • US Embassy
  • Barracks bombing
  • Mountain War

Fourth Phase

  • War of the Camps
  • 1985 Beirut car bombing
  • October 13 massacre

The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 63 people, mostly embassy and CIA staff members, several soldiers and one Marine. 17 of the dead were Americans. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is thought of as marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.

The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force, made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War, to try to restore order and central government authority. It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen.

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