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PTSD in the Foreign Service — The Embassy Beirut Bombing

In an unprecedented suicide attack on Americans, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed on April 18, 1983. The tragedy…

In 2001 Ann Wright served as the first political officer in the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Two years…

To understand why Iraq is imploding, you must understand Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — and why the United States has…

The suicide bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on April 18, 1983 was the deadliest attack on a…

It was one of the most horrific events in U.S. diplomatic history. On August 7, 1998, between 10:30 and 10:40…