The 60-year-old career soldier is the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected president in the country's history ...

After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...

Aoun’s predecessor is the Hezbollah-backed former President Michel Aoun (the two are not ... of body blows during the two-month war with Israel in the fall, including with the killing of its ...

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

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say ...

The ceasefire ended fighting that began in October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in support of ... vacant since former President Michel Aoun stepped down in October 2022.

He also kept it out of a more than year-long war between Israel and Hezbollah ... including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for ...

A fiery exchange erupted in Lebanon’s Parliament on Tuesday, after journalist-turned-politician Paula Yacoubian was verbally ...

Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected Gen. Joseph Aoun as the 14th president of the country after a two-year vacancy of ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... political weakening of Hezbollah following its war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Assad, in Syria, along ...