However, Gen. Michel Aoun, a former commander of the Lebanese army and now a leading Christian member of parliament, has come out against the deployment of a multinational force in Lebanon.

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 – 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 fulfilled his ...

As Lebanon's parliamentary elections enter a fourth and final round Sunday, voting in the north will shape a new parliament. Supporters of former Army Gen. Michel Aoun, gone from Lebanon for 15 ...

"My pledge to the Lebanese, wherever they are, and for the whole world to hear, is that today, a new phase in Lebanon's history has begun," Aoun said in his acceptance speech shortly after he was ...

Lebanon's political leader Michel Aoun, ... Aoun, a former Lebanese army chief, had the support of the powerful militant group Hezbollah when he was first elected as president in 2016 after the ...

The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as incoming president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum as part of a political deal that is expected to make Sunni ...

In early 1990, Aoun started a second war, of “elimination” against Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces militia, the former Phalange. Another 3,300 Lebanese were killed or wounded.

A former Lebanese foreign minister and son-in-law of President Michel Aoun has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Sunday. The statement from his office said Gebran Bassil, who ...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who heads the largest bloc in Parliament, on Thursday formally endorsed a leading Christian politician and strong ally of the Hezbollah group to become ...

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 ...

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.