13th President of Lebanon from 2016 to 2022
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He commanded Lebanon's army, declared war on Syria, fled into exile for fifteen years, then returned to forge an alliance with Hezbollah and ascend to the presidency at eighty-three — the same office he'd claimed by force three decades earlier.
Born in 1935 to a Maronite family in Haret Hreik, Aoun graduated from the Military Academy in 1955 and rose to become Lebanon's youngest army commander in 1984. Four years later, as civil war fractured the state, outgoing President Amine Gemayel appointed him interim Prime Minister of a military government — a move that split the country between rival administrations. On 14 March 1989, Aoun launched the War of Liberation against Syrian forces, rejected the Taif Agreement, and survived an assassination attempt before Syrian troops stormed his strongholds in October 1990, forcing him to surrende…
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