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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 Mediterranean country has been without a president since the term of Michel Aoun -- not related to his successor -- ended in October 2022, with tensions between the Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted president after two rounds ... coupled with the downfall of its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, severely weakened Hezbollah, reviving a long ...

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.

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday ... and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad toppled in December. It also indicated a revival of Saudi influence in ...

The favoured choice of the US, France and Saudi Arabia, General Joseph Aoun was elected as Lebanon's new president by parliament in the second round of voting on Thursday.

Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted president after two rounds of voting ... which was shortly followed by the downfall of Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who had opened his territory to ...