Michel Aoun, the new president of Lebanon, picked Saudi-backed politician Saad Hariri as the new prime minister, and asked him to form a Cabinet. World News // 1 decade ago Lebanon, without a ...

Feuding Lebanese leaders signed a breakthrough deal Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict, abating fears of a fresh civil war and opening the door for the election of a new president.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michel Suleiman is a President for Lebanon with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2008 Statement. President Bush and Lebanese President ...

BEIRUT — Backed by most of Lebanon’s major communities and their international patrons, former army Chief of Staff Michel Suleiman ascended to the presidency of this volatile Mediterranean ...

Lebanon's parliament elected army commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as president in a long-delayed vote that was a key step toward reconciling political factions.

Welcomed by a 21-gun salute and a military band, Michel Suleiman, Lebanon’s new President, took up residence Monday in the modern concrete-and-glass presidential palace set among the hilly ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Long-feuding lawmakers elected Gen. Michel Suleiman as this country's president, ending an 18-month political stalemate between the U.S.-backed government and the opposition ...

After a six-month vacancy, Lebanon swears in a new president Sunday. The vote in parliament for Gen. Michel Suleiman ends 18 months of political stalemate. Sulieman vows to strengthen ties with ...

The target of the attack, Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, a Maronite Catholic and head of army operations, was considered a leading contender to succeed the head of the military, Gen. Michel Suleiman ...

BEIRUT, May 25: Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state on Sunday. Celebratory gunfire erupted in Beirut after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri declared that ...