The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second ...

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

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

Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to ...

But who is Joseph Aoun? And why did it take so long for the Lebanese parliament to agree that he was the right person to lead ...

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 ...

Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as its president, ending a two-year deadlock and power vacuum at the top of the country’s political power structure.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) received a vote to be Lebanon’s president in a parliamentary election for the position. On Thursday, Lebanon elected its first president in two years — Army ...

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

Though Lebanon’s presidency is mostly symbolic, it has a few important powers, like approving prime ministers and cabinets.