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Michel Naim Aoun (Arabic: ميشال نعيم عون, Lebanese Arabic: [miˈʃæːl naˈʕiːm ʕawn]; born 30 September 1933) [3] [4] is a Lebanese politician and former general who served as the 13th president of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 to 30 October 2022.
Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed ...
A transitional military cabinet was formed on 22 September 1988, the last day of Amine Gemayel presidency, dismissing the current cabinet headed by Salim Hoss. The Prime Minister was also General Michel Aoun, the commander of the army at the time. [1]
Joseph Khalil Aoun (Arabic: جوزيف خليل عون, born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese general who has served as the 14th Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017. He began his career in the Lebanese Army in 1983, and was steadily promoted until he reached the rank of Brigadier General in 2013.
Prior to Thursday’s parliamentary sessions, there were 12 failed attempts to elect a president over the last two years. Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc said they had cast their ballots for Aoun ...
On 22 September 1988, Michel Aoun, the commander of the Army at the time, was appointed by president Amine Gemayel as the head of the Lebanese government. [5] [6] On 14 March 1989, Aoun declared the War of Liberation against the Syrian occupation army in Lebanon. On 31 January 1990, Aoun launched an offensive against the Lebanese Forces in East ...
His presidency was disputed by military general Michel Aoun. Seventeen days after being elected, as he was returning from Lebanon's Independence Day celebrations, a 250 kg car bomb was detonated next to Moawad's motorcade in West Beirut, killing him and 23 others. [2] [3] 5 November 1989: Vacant (22 November 1989 – 24 November 1989) 10 Elias ...
For many years, while Michel Aoun was and exiled in Paris and on 14 July 1994, he established the Free Patriotic Movement in what he called "The National Conference". He returned to Lebanon on 7 May 2005 after the Cedar Revolution forced the withdrawal of the Syrian forces, and then contested the legislative elections held in late May in early June although it placed him on the head of the ...