USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The explosion toppled the building, and 58 soldiers inside were killed. Within four months, elements of the multinational force began to withdraw to ships offshore, and on February 26, 1984, the last U.S. Marines left Beirut.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1983, his battalion was ordered to Beirut, Lebanon. That October, an Iranian national drove a truck bomb into the U.S. Marine Barracks – prompting the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah, to take credit. The attack claimed the lives of 241 American service members including 220 Marines.

Detailed explanation-3: -But by 1984, terrorist attacks, a lack of diplomatic progress, and congressional opposition led President Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. In April 1981, the Israeli Air Force attacked Syrian forces in Lebanon to prevent them from seizing the strategic Sannin ridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reagan had sent the troops to Lebanon earlier in 1983 in hopes of helping stabilize that country, which was being ravaged by a civil war. Hezbollah, a terrorist group that controlled much of Lebanon’s south, and which then, as now, was funded by Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to a 2019 study, the collapse of the Lebanese national army in February 1984 was the primary motivating factor behind the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Lebanon.