Back تفجير السفارة الأمريكية في بيروت Arabic Bombenanschlag auf die US-Botschaft in Beirut 1983 German Atentado contra la embajada de Estados Unidos en el Líbano de 1983 Spanish انفجار سفارت آمریکا در بیروت (۱۹۸۳) Persian Attaque contre l'ambassade américaine à Beyrouth French Buamáil ambasáid na Stát Aontaithe sa bhliain 1983 Irish Attentato all'ambasciata degli Stati Uniti di Beirut Italian アメリカ大使館爆破事件 (1983年) Japanese Aanslag op de Amerikaanse ambassade in Beiroet op 18 april 1983 Dutch Atentado contra a embaixada dos Estados Unidos no Líbano em 1983 Portuguese
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| 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing | |
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| Part of the Lebanese Civil War | |
 US Embassy three days after the bombing | |
  Location of the attack site in Beirut | |
| Location | United States Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon |
| Coordinates | 33°54′5″N 35°29′6″E / 33.90139°N 35.48500°E |
| Date | April 18, 1983 1:03 pm (GMT+2) |
Attack type | Suicide van bomb |
| Weapon | Van packed with ‹See Tfd› ≈2,000 pounds (910 kg) of explosives |
| Deaths | 63 (+1 suicide bomber) |
| Injured | 120 |
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The April 18, 1983, United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one US Marine Security Guard. It was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission up to that time, and was considered the beginning of Islamist attacks on US targets.
The attack came in the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the United States and other Western countries.
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