Around 6pm local time on Tuesday 4 August, many people in Beirut turned their gaze to the ... the city It was visible from miles away. This map shows how this picture was taken from nearly 2km ...
The United States Embassy building in Beirut, after being struck by a suicide bomber on April 18, 1983. (AP/Wide World Photos) By early 1983, the multinational force made up of U.S., French and ...