Few months after they signed the deal Hezbollah initiated its 2006 war with Israel which destroyed Lebanon’s infrastructure ...

FILE - In this photo released by the Lebanese ... Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian ...

The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and ...

Aoun’s presidential victory is remarkable. He did not publicly campaign for the job, and none of the political parties ...

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

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former president Michel ... and the Lebanese militant ...

Then, a Saudi delegation headed by the kingdom’s envoy, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a ...

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

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 ...

Analysts view him as a man of integrity who is well-placed to rebuild Lebanon after his predecessor, Michel Aoun (no relation), vacated the presidency in 2022. The Lebanese political system has ...

The vote came weeks after a tenuous ceasefire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between Israel and the Lebanese ... group but a political party with a strong base of support. Aoun “has ...