24case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 24 case files in Lebanon. By legal status, 10 marked unsolved, 2 marked ongoing, 11 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Randy Gaddo, Marine Staff Sgt.Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenBeirut International Airport and Ramlet al Baida, Beirut, Lebanon · 1983
On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings housing U.S. and French peacekeepers in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 307 people — 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers — in one of the deadliest single-day losses for the U.S. military since World War II.
Haret Hreik, Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon · 2024
On 27 September 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed Hezbollah's underground headquarters in Beirut's Dahieh suburb, killing Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, senior Hezbollah commanders, and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, along with at least 33 people total and injuring more than 195.
Credit: Claude SalhaniPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenU.S. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon · 1983
A suicide car bombing destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on April 18, 1983, killing 63 people, including embassy staff, CIA personnel, U.S. military members, and Lebanese civilians. The Islamic Jihad Organization claimed responsibility; U.S. courts later attributed the attack to Hezbollah with Iranian backing, which Hezbollah has denied.
Credit: BillCramerCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenBeirut, Lebanon · 1982
Between 1982 and 1992, 104 foreign nationals — mostly Americans and Western Europeans — were kidnapped in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, largely by a group of men affiliated with Hezbollah and linked to Iran. At least eight hostages died in captivity before the crisis ended in 1992.
Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon · 2024
On 2 January 2024, Saleh al-Arouri, deputy leader of Hamas, was killed along with six other people in an Israeli strike on a Hamas office in the Dahieh suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.
Credit: יוני סער - Bamahane photographerCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenTyre, Lebanon · 1982
Two suicide bombings struck the Israeli military headquarters building in Tyre, Lebanon, in November 1982 and November 1983, killing a combined 104 Israelis and dozens of Lebanese and Palestinian detainees.
Credit: James BradburyCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenKataeb Party headquarters, Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon · 1982
On 14 September 1982, a bomb detonated at Kataeb Party headquarters in Achrafieh, Beirut, killing Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel and 23 other party members; the attack was carried out by an SSNP member and led to Israeli occupation of West Beirut and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
SOLVEDListenNear St. George Hotel, Beirut Corniche · 2005
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was killed along with 21 others when a massive truck bomb detonated near his motorcade in Beirut on 14 February 2005. After a lengthy UN-backed investigation, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicted Hezbollah operative Salim Ayyash in absentia in 2020, and two co-defendants were convicted in 2022; Hezbollah's leadership was not found to have been implicated.
UNSOLVEDListenHamra district, West Beirut, Lebanon · 1976
In February 1983, a car bomb destroyed the Palestine Research Center in Beirut, killing at least six people, after the institute's library and archive had already been seized by Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
OVERTURNEDListenSaydet al-Najat Church, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon · 1994
A bomb exploded during Sunday Mass at Saydet al-Najat Church in Zouk Mikael, Lebanon, on February 27, 1994, killing 11 people and injuring 54. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was arrested and prosecuted, but the bombing trial collapsed, and he was later amnestied in a process widely described as a politically motivated "show trial."
The files run from 1948 to 2024. The 2020s hold the most, with 8 files. The oldest is Hula massacre, from 1948.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (2), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and disappearance cases (1).
None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.
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Vice President George H.W. Bush Visiting the Site of the Beirut Barracks Bombing — Credit: Randy Gaddo, Marine Staff Sgt.Public domainSource
Beirutembassy — Credit: Claude SalhaniPublic domainSource
Joseph cicippio lebanon hostage by bill cramer — Credit: BillCramerCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Tyre headquarters bombings 9 — Credit: יוני סער - Bamahane photographerCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Mar Charbel and Bachir Gemayel at Sassine Square, Beirut — Credit: James BradburyCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Bourj el-Barajneh entrance - Flickr - Al Jazeera English — Credit: Al Jazeera EnglishCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Sassine Square — Credit: SassinemichelCC BY-SA 3.0Source
24. By status: 10 unsolved, 2 ongoing, 11 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Hula massacre, from 1948. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
