The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a ...

Israel’s military success in Lebanon and the strings Gulf patrons attached to reconstruction money forced Hezbollah to cut its losses and acquiesce to the election of a president it had vetoed ...

As Lebanon confronts the aftermath of another war with Israel, non-sectarian MP Michel Moawad discusses the new president, ...

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

In 2016, Hezbollah had forced the election of its ally, former Army commander Michel Aoun, after a 29-month vacuum in the presidency. On Thursday, Jospeh Aoun emerged as a leading candidate for ...

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

He received 99 out of 128 votes from across the political spectrum, including Hezbollah lawmakers ... the 13th time since 2022, when Aoun’s predecessor, Michel Aoun (no relation), prepared ...

Hezbollah has emerged bruised from the conflict ... including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected its US-backed army chief to be the country’s next president, ending a years-long political ...

The election of Joseph Aoun to the presidency of Lebanon has profound implications for the country, both domestically and ...

Former President Michel Suleiman described the inaugural speech delivered by President Joseph Aoun as both promising and ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh ...