Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... weakening of Hezbollah after its war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Assad, along with international pressure ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate ... said that the military and political weakening of Hezbollah following its war with Israel and the fall ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel ... Joseph Aoun as the frontrunner, receiving 71 out of 128 votes but falling short of the two ...