War & Reconstruction · event 4 of 13

1983

The barracks bombings. The US embassy is bombed in April; in October simultaneous truck bombs kill 241 American and 58 French servicemen of the multinational force. The force withdraws within months.

The War & Reconstruction era

  1. 1975
  2. 1976
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1989
  6. 1991
  7. 1994
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2011
  11. 2019
  12. 2020
  13. 2023

See the full timeline or read the history of Beirut.