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

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

The horror of the Beirut port explosion in August 2020 ... And when President Michel Aoun vacated the presidency in October 2022, the Lebanese parliament was unable to agree on a successor ...

The Mediterranean country had been without a president since the term of Michel Aoun ended in ... Iran’s embassy in Beirut also welcomed Aoun’s election, stating on X that it was looking ...

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

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and ... the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 9 (UPI ... 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 ...

The horror of the Beirut explosion in August 2020, which killed more than 220 people, added to the sense that the country’s ...

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament ... Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi ...