Today's session marked the 13th attempt to elect a new president since former President Michel Aoun left office at the end of his term in October 2022. According to the constitution, Lebanon's ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022. The vote came ...

Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday, arrived inside parliament to swear his oath to general applause, wearing a dark suit and blue tie instead ... country has been without a president since the term of ...

One of the most influential Christian parties in the country, the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.

However, deep divisions among lawmakers had led to 12 failed attempts to elect a president since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October 2022. In Thursday’s first round of voting, Aoun fell short ...

ALBAWABA - After more than two years, the Lebanese Parliament finally chose Army Commander General Joseph Aoun as the country's next president on Thursday. In the second round of voting, which was ...

Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun as head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys US approval and showing the diminished sway of the Iran ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came ...

Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a political neophyte whose position as head of one of the country's most respected institutions helped end a two-year ...

Aoun, no relation to former president Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild after ...