The Beirut Barracks Bombing in 1983 saw two truck bombs crash into buildings housing American and French military soldiers in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, killing a total of 299 American and French servicemen. The bombings, using what was then the largest non-nuclear bomb in history at six tons of TNT, were claimed by Islamic Jihad and specifically targeted a U.S. Marine and Navy compound and a French peacekeeping compound stationed there.