18 April 1983
✸US embassy bombing
Beirut & suburbs#Civil war
AttackerIslamic Jihad & the hostage-taking fronts➜TargetUnited States
On 18 April 1983 a truck bomb destroyed the front of the American embassy in Ain el-Mreisseh during a meeting of CIA officers. It killed 63 people, among them 17 Americans and the CIA's station chief for the Middle East; "Islamic Jihad" claimed it.