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

Aoun headed the country’s army since 2017 and was selected Thursday to succeed Michel Aoun ... former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, helped paved the way for Aoun’s win.

But the one in Baabda, in the hills above Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, has been vacant since October 2022, when Michel Aoun finished ... and the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation ... to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

The Presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system and has been vacant since Michel ... of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighboring Syria.

Bitar said a leading candidate in Thursday's vote is army chief Joseph Aoun, "who seems to be supported ... of Hezbollah and the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, his key political backers." ...

and since its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December. The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel ...

with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria.

Newly elected Lebanese president Joseph Aoun (C) stands next to the Parliament ... the region and the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Baath regime. Aoun, who has served as ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 9 (UPI) --Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that ... and the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Baath regime.