BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament elected Michel Aoun as the country's president on Monday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the top post and a political crisis that brought state institutions ...

Lebanon’s parliament ended the country’s 29-month leadership stalemate Monday by electing a Hezbollah-backed former army general and disputed president who once considered Syria a bitter enemy.

BEIRUT (AP) — Michel Aoun, Lebanon's strong-willed Christian leader, has waited more than three decades for the chance to become president. On Monday, the 81-year-old politician finally ...

Michel Aoun’s comments were the most senior confirmation that Lebanon's top leaders and security officials were aware of the 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that had been ...

Michel Naim Aoun (Arabic: ميشال نعيم عون‎) (born September 30, 1933) is a Lebanese politician. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he served as Prime Minister of the legal one ...

Aoun, 81, is a divisive figure who rose to prominence as a military leader during Lebanon’s devastating 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990. In that conflict, he fought then-occupying Syrian ...

News about Michel Aoun. Commentary and archival information about Michel Aoun from The New York Times.

But in 2005, Syria's army withdrew from Lebanon and Aoun returned, with his FPM snatching 21 out of 128 seats in parliamentary elections. "He is a tenacious leader who never gives up, who never ...

Lebanese president Michel Aoun left office on Sunday on the penultimate day of his six-year term, returning to private life and leaving the country without a leader as its newly elected parliament ...

Even before Lebanese President Michel Aoun finished his much-criticized televised interview this week, protesters were blocking the main roads in Beirut, chanting, again, for him to leave office.