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

Lebanon’s army chief, Joseph Aoun, was elected president in the second round of the presidential vote held on Thursday, local ...

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.

Presidents in Lebanon are brought to power by near political consensus, but more than six contenders were still in play.

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

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 ...

BEIRUT: Lebanon elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a US-backed candidate in a sign of Iran’s waning influence in the region. More than ...

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

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

The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Friday, addressing an incident at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport the previous night. The statement clarified that the ...