Michel Aoun – no relation – whose term ended in October 2022. Joseph Aoun’s election comes after Hezbollah had previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, with close ties to former Syrian ...

Head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement MP Gebran Bassil has demonstrated his ability to change his stances and adapt to ...

With the fall of Assad in December, the election of Aoun and Salam in Lebanon marks the second dramatic political shift in ...

The presidency had been vacant since Michel Aoun's (no relation) term ended in October 2022 ... weakened by a 14-month war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ...

Lebanon's parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the ...

Hezbollah may have been severely weakened by its war with Israel in the fall, and by the recent toppling of its key ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ... President Michel Aoun (the two ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected Joseph Aoun, the United States-backed Army Chief, as the country’s new president, breaking a ...

A Syria monitor said fighters linked to the Islamist-led transitional administration publicly executed a local official on ...

Aoun, 60, has been commander of US-backed Lebanese army since 2017 and played a key role in shoring up a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

Outcome reflects shifts in the power balance in the country and the wider Middle East, with Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah ...

Lebanon's parliament elected Army Chief Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday, bringing an end to a prolonged political deadlock and presidential vacancy, CNN reported. Aoun was ...