However, Gen. Michel Aoun, a former commander of the Lebanese army and now a leading Christian member of parliament, has come out against the deployment of a multinational force in Lebanon.

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and pledged to rebuild the state, adopt a policy of "positive neutrality ...

Lebanon's political leader Michel Aoun, ... Aoun, a former Lebanese army chief, had the support of the powerful militant group Hezbollah when he was first elected as president in 2016 after the ...

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Skip links Skip to Content ... Michel Aoun – who is not related to the new president.

It ended when former President Michel Aoun was elected. The Lebanese army commander, Gen. Joseph Aoun, center, during a visit to the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on Dec. 23. AFP - Getty Images ...

But in 2005, Syria's army withdrew from Lebanon and Aoun returned, with his FPM snatching 21 out of 128 seats in parliamentary elections. "He is a tenacious leader who never gives up, who never ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

Lebanon's members of parliament had failed in 12 previous rounds of voting to reach a consensus on a president, leaving the presidency vacant since former President Michel Aoun stepped down in ...

When Michel Aoun became president in 2016, putting an end to a two-year power vacuum due to political wrangling, he vowed to be the "strong" president Lebanon so desperately needed.