Lebanon has elected a president following a two-year deadlock and power vacuum, signaling a weakened Hezbollah.

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022.

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

Lebanon's last president, Michel Aoun, left office two years ago, and the position has remained vacant since. He bears no ...

The army fought in coordination with the Hezbollah militant group ... the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

After years of gridlock, Lebanon’s parliament elected Aoun, the chief military commander, as president. His win could unlock ...

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

General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of ...

This is the first time Lebanon got a president in two years after a long period of power vacuum that began after former ...

The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second ...

Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than ...