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The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi , Kenya .
Operation Infinite Reach was the codename for American cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases that were launched concurrently across two continents on 20 August 1998. . Launched by the U.S. Navy, the strikes hit the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, and a camp in Khost Province, Afghanistan, in retaliation for al-Qaeda's August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and ...
Attacks on US diplomatic facilities. An angry mob led by members of the Muslim clergy and including many members of the Iranian Army beat Consul Robert W. Imbrie to death. The mob blamed America for poisoning a well. [1] The second of two bomb attacks on the embassy in Gabon.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates issued a statement condemning the attack on the embassy. Qatar's foreign ministry and GCC Secretary-General, Jassim Mohammed Al-Badawi, condemned the attack as well. See also. 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
United States. April 6. Soviet Union. China. Peking. On April 6, with support from Western diplomatic missions, Zhang Zuolin ordered policemen and gendarmeries stormed and invaded the Soviet embassy in Peking to arrest Li Dazhao and his family, as Li was accused of overthrowing government backed by Soviet Union.
He did not detail the locations, but other U.S. officials have pointed to the Ivory Coast and Ghana as examples. Ekman, who serves as the director for strategy at U.S. Africa Command, is leading the U.S. military withdrawal from the small base at the airport in Niger's capital of Niamey and from the larger counterterrorism base in the city of ...
Cantonments, Accra, Ghana. Address. No. 24, Fourth Circular Rd. Website. gh.usembassy.gov. The Embassy of the United States of America in Accra is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Ghana. It is the focal point for events relating to the United States held in Ghana. [1] [2]
Ghana–United States relations are the diplomatic relations between Ghana and United States . Both nations have generally been friendly since Ghana's independence, except for a period of strained relations during the later years of the Nkrumah regime. Ghana was the first country to which United States Peace Corps volunteers were sent in 1961.