Lebanon's lawmakers elected Michel Aoun, an lran-backed politician and former general, as president Monday, ending more than two years the country has gone without a leader. Aoun, 81, is an ally ...

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, leaving a ...

Michel Aoun poses at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Monday. WAEL HAMZEH / EPA. The 81-year-old former army commander is a strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah.

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 ...

Lebanon’s president has called for an end to an 11-week deadlock that has prevented the government from convening, further undermining state institutions in the country amid an economic meltdown ...

If Michel Aoun is, as he claimed on his dramatic return to Beirut, "the father, the grandfather and the son of the opposition", then the outspoken ex-army chief has had an almighty family row. His ...

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 president has called for an end to an 11-week deadlock that has prevented the government from convening, further undermining state institutions in the country amid an economic meltdown ...

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 ...