In November, the dissolved parliament met at the Qoleiat Air Base in northern Lebanon, where it approved the Taef Agreement and elected Rene Moawad as the president.
Moawad was assassinated on Nov. 22 and the parliament elected Elias Hrawi on Nov. 24 to replace him.
On Oct. 13, 1990, a Syrian-led military operation, in which fighter planes were used by the Syrians for the first time in Lebanon, invaded the liberated areas of Lebanon and attacked the presidential palace in Baabda, thus forcing Aoun to take refuge in the French embassy.
He was forced into exile in France. He returned to Lebanon on May 7, 2005 following the assassination of former PM Rafic Hariri.
Aoun won the largest Christian representation in the 2005 parliamentary elections and led a 27-member bloc that he called "Change and Reform."
In 2006, Aoun reached an understanding with Hezbollah, a move that was behind the sharp political division in the country between what has been known as the March 8 Camp backed by Iran and Syria and the March 14 Camp backed by the West and Saudi Arabia.
During the Israeli 2006 war with Hezbollah, Aoun was a staunch ally to the militant party.
Aoun announced his candidacy to the presidential elections in 2008 after the term of President Emile Lahoud ended, but the internal disputes and an agreement reached in Qatar's capital Doha led to the election of former President Michel Suleiman.
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