Fouad Makhzoumi, an MP who seeks the prime minister role, expects Saudi Arabia to strongly back a reformist ... the new president. Aoun will succeed Michel Aoun, who stepped down in 2022.

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army ...

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. The vote came ...

Lebanon had been without a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022. The former president was backed by Iran ...

President General Michel Aoun wrote on his account on the "X" platform: "The land belongs to its sons, to those who water it with their blood, to those who defend it with their ...

including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ruling politicians over Lebanon's financial collapse in ...

This is particularly true in Lebanon, especially following new fractures in the Hezbollah-Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) alliance. In the closing days of 2021, President Michel ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect Gen. Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as the country’s new president, ending a years-long leadership vacuum that ...

And when President Michel Aoun vacated the presidency in October ... which stipulates that Hezbollah must pull back from south of the Litani River and be replaced by the Lebanese army, to ensure ...