Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than ...

Lebanon's last president, Michel Aoun, left office two years ago, and the position has remained vacant since. He bears no ...

Former President Michel Aoun received Prime Minister-designate Judge Nawaf Salam at his residence in Rabieh, where they ...

But who is Joseph Aoun? And why did it take so long for the Lebanese parliament to agree that he was the right person to lead ...

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

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

Analysts say Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday and is considered a man of “personal integrity”, could be the right candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun ... into southern Lebanon as Israeli ...

reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun's (no relation) term ended in October 2022, with deeply divided factions unable ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi ...

BEIRUT – Lebanon’s new president and former army ... the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.

Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a political neophyte whose position as head of ...

Lebanon's 128-member parliament elected Army ... In 2016, Hezbollah had forced the election of its ally, former Army commander Michel Aoun, after a 29-month vacuum in the presidency.