Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh announced he had ...

Joseph Aoun met the threshold for victory in the second round of ... including killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah and ...

Stability and peace in Syria is vital for Lebanon's recovery Discussing Syria’s recent change of regime, El-Khoury also ...

Joseph Aoun, 61, Lebanon’s army commander, takes the role of president after over two years of the seat being empty and 13 attempts to vote in a leader.

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun ... Syrian president ...

Then, a Saudi delegation headed by the kingdom’s envoy, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a ...

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

Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday ... and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad toppled in December. It also indicated a revival of Saudi ...

Lebanon’s lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy ... Hezbollah has lost a major ally after rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month. The ...