A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanon's President Michel Aoun (C) during a meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegion at the ...

For more than two years, Lebanon has been paralysed. The previous president, Michel Aoun, left office in October 2022. Parliament could not agree on a replacement. With no head of state, no one ...

A fiery exchange erupted in Lebanon’s Parliament on Tuesday, after journalist-turned-politician Paula Yacoubian was verbally attacked by MP Salim Aoun during the first round of voting for the ...

Aoun, who has led the Lebanese army since 2017, became the fifth army commander in Lebanon’s history to ascend to the presidency, the fourth in a row, and the 14th president overall.

Aoun has become the 14th president in Lebanon’s history since the country’s independence in 1943. Born in the southern town of Aishieh in 1964, he joined the army as a cadet officer in 1983 ...

Lebanon entered a presidential vacuum on Oct. 31, 2022, after the term of President Michel Aoun ended without Parliament being able to elect a new president.

"My pledge to the Lebanese, wherever they are, and for the whole world to hear, is that today, a new phase in Lebanon's history has begun," Aoun said in his acceptance speech shortly after he was ...

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group ...

Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun on Thursday became the country’s 14th president, filling the top seat that has been vacant since Michel Aoun left office in October 2022. Born in 1964, Aoun ...

Aoun, no relation to former president Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild.

Lebanon's 13th President Michel Aoun left office after serving from 31 October 31, 2016, to October 30, 2022. Today, the Lebanese lawmakers gathered inside the parliament and agreed on Joseph Aoun ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022.