Election of Joseph Aoun is seen as a step towards reviving government institutions and securing international aid for Lebanon’s struggling economy.

Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

Few months after they signed the deal Hezbollah initiated its 2006 war with Israel which destroyed Lebanon’s infrastructure and killed over 1200 Lebnaese, mainly civilians. The war resulted in over $15 billion in damages. Hezbollah’s leader admitted after the war ended that he miscalculated.

France's president said Friday that Paris will soon host an aid conference to help rebuild Lebanon after the Israel-Hezbollah war last year, as he visited Beirut in a show of

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior ministry source and ...

President Emmanuel Macron met with Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun and vowed to support the nation as it tries to recover from a historic economic crisis and the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.