17 April 1986
☠Three hostages killed after the US raid on Libya
AttackerArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)➜TargetUnited States
On 17 April 1986, two days after the American raid on Tripoli and Benghazi, the bodies of the American Peter Kilburn and the Britons Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield were found near Beirut; it was said that Libya had bought the hostages from their kidnappers.