The 60-year-old career soldier is the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected president in the country's history ...

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army ...

Joseph Aoun, head of Lebanon ’s army, on Thursday was elected as the country’s 14th president of the republic. The ...

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial ...

The parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun as head of state, ending a presidential vacuum which has persisted since 2022 and showing the diminished sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, ...

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Lebanese army soldiers block a road that leads to the parliament building while lawmakers gather to elect a president in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Israel must accelerate its withdrawal from south Lebanon to achieve a full ...

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (of the Shi'ite Amal party) adjourned the session for two hours for "consultations," before the second round of voting resumes ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun head of ... his candidacy and declared his support for the military commander, along with a growing number of ...

where the Israeli military has not yet withdrawn from dozens of villages. He also vowed to reconstruct “what the Israeli army destroyed in the south, east and [Beirut’s southern] suburbs.” Druze ...