Lebanon's lawmakers elected Michel Aoun, an lran-backed politician and former general, as president Monday, ending more than two years the country has gone without a leader. Aoun, 81, is an ally ...

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon’s cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacates the presidential palace on Sunday, leaving a ...

Michel Aoun poses at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Monday. WAEL HAMZEH / EPA. The 81-year-old former army commander is a strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah.

Lebanon's parliament failed on Monday to elect a president for the fourth time, with just a week left until outgoing President Michel Aoun's term ends and warnings of a constitutional crisis ...

Michel Aoun's six-year term, which came to a close on Sunday, was marred by mass protests, a painful economic downturn and the deadly August 2020 mega-explosion in Beirut ...

BEIRUT-- Lebanon’s parliament on Monday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country’s president, ending a more ...

Lebanon has a new president, Joseph Aoun Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

Lebanon’s Aoun accepts gov’t resignation before leaving office President Michel Aoun’s 6-year term set to expire on Oct. 31 Stephanie Radi | 30.10.2022 - Update : 30.10.2022 ...

Aoun, who is an ally of Hizbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, took office in 2016 amid another period of political turmoil during which Lebanon went 29 months without a president.