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Festooned on row after row of tents in central Beirut are posters of Michel Aoun - a Maronite Christian who heads the Free Patriotic Movement - and Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. The ...
Decks cleared for Michel Aoun’s return. The Lebanese government has dropped charges against an anti-Syria former general accused of seizing power and imposing military rule, days before his ...
Five children were arrested in Lebanon on Saturday after tearing down a poster of President Michel Aoun in the Hammana municipality, several local news stations reported. All of the boys were ...
Former general Michel Aoun has won a parliamentary vote to become president of Lebanon. Aoun's name was indicated in a majority of 83 ballots in the second round of voting, after falling two votes ...
Mr Aoun, an army commander during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, is known to have aspired to the presidential post. He is the fourth Lebanese president from a military background.
Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon’s cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacates the presidential palace on Sunday, ...
BEIRUT-- Lebanon’s parliament on Monday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country’s president, ending a more ...
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 ...