Joseph Aoun Lebanon former army chief was elected the 14th president of Lebanon on Thursday ending a two-year presidential vacuum that had paralyze ...

The January 2025 election of Joseph Aoun as Lebanese president marks a shift toward sovereignty and stability following Hezbollah's weakened influence after its war with Israel. Aoun faces major tests ...

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

With the election of Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun on Thursday (January 9), a two-year period marked by a political vacuum under a previous caretaker government has ended. "Aoun was seen as the ...

"To congratulate him and wish him success in these difficult circumstances, of course this is an obligation," says former ...

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

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

Lebanon’s parliament was set Thursday to make yet another effort to elect a president, filling a vacuum that’s lasted for ...

JERUSALEM, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in ...

All this is in any case impossible right now: Lebanon has no president to oversee it. The post has been vacant since Michel Aoun ended his term in October 2022. The consensus choice for his ...

Even a request for the political advisor of Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hussein Khalil to intervene was declined, with Khalil stating he had already urged Frangieh to step aside twice in Lebanon's ...

The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged on Wednesday that a group of settlers crossed the northern border and entered Lebanon earlier this month, after initially saying that the activists had only ...