The Presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system and has been vacant since ...

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

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 ...

Aoun, 60, has been commander of US-backed Lebanese army since 2017 and played a key role in shoring up a ceasefire between ...

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s Parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Jan 9, filling the vacant presidency with a ...

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

After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...

LEBANESE PRESIDENT Michel Aoun (right ... before seeing its role eclipsed by Iran and Hezbollah. Aoun, head of Lebanon's U.S.-backed army, would still need 86 votes because his election requires ...

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

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his ...