BEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday (Jan 9), ending a more than two-year ...

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

On October 7, 2023, the decades-long conflict in the region experienced an unprecedented escalation when Hamas and other ...

Lebanon's lawmakers on Thursday elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy in the position, in a ...

Bernie Sanders is ineligible to be Lebanon's president, as he is neither a Lebanese citizen nor a Maronite Christian — the ...

Lebanese politicians elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy in a step ...

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon. The 61-year-old becomes ...

The new president has promised to help fight corruption and crack down on smuggling, end impunity for criminals, and work for an independent judiciary.

A devastating economic crisis, a political power vacuum, massive corruption and most recently the war between Hezbollah and ...

Lebanese army commander elected president weeks after a tenuous cease-fire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between ...

The election of army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun garnered rare consensus among the Lebanese, backed by the United States and ...

Lebanon has elected a president following a two-year deadlock and power vacuum, signalling a weakened Hezbollah.