The United States has declared Lebanon's consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Charara, persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country over social media posts attributed to him that praised the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. Lebanese media reported that he was given 48 hours to leave and was expected to fly back to Lebanon on Sunday, 8 November.

The posts at the centre of the case date to 2021, when Charara was serving as a diplomat in Egypt, before his posting to Detroit. They were surfaced this week by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative American news outlet, in a report published on 2 November. In one post from November 2021, Charara is said to have written that the "heroic resistance" had ended the American military occupation of Lebanon with a single strike. Some reports spell his surname Sharara.

The 23 October 1983 attack killed 241 American service members, 58 French soldiers and six Lebanese civilians when truck bombs struck buildings housing US and French troops serving in the Multinational Force in Lebanon. Washington blames Hezbollah, which the United States designates a terrorist organisation, although the group has never claimed or denied responsibility for the bombing.

A source close to Charara told the Lebanese broadcaster LBCI that the post came from an old social media account that was hacked several years ago, a claim that has not been verified. The Lebanese embassy in Washington received formal notification of the decision, according to Lebanese media, and neither the State Department nor Charara had commented publicly as of Saturday evening. The Free Beacon's reporting also covered Charara's attendance at an Arab American community event in Dearborn, Michigan, in late October.