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BEIRUT — A deeply divided parliament failed Tuesday in its 17th try to elect a new president for Lebanon, extending a stalemate that has become the country’s worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.
The deadlock prompted Arab foreign ministers meeting in Kuwait to indirectly rebuke Syria, which occupied its neighbor for 29 years and has been accused of continuing to interfere in Lebanese affairs since withdrawing its troops in 2005.
The government has been gridlocked by the political fight between parliament’s pro-Western majority and an opposition bloc led by the Syrian-allied militant group Hezbollah.
