Joseph Aoun is the first to be picked since the departure of Michel Aoun in 2022. Lebanese lawmakers were unable from the first session on Jan. 9 to elect a new president. A second session was ...

Aoun’s victory, which saw members of parliament erupting in celebration as he reached the required threshold of 86 votes, came on the legislature’s 13th attempt to find a successor for Michel ...

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 ...

The presidency, reserved for a Maronite Christian under Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, had remained vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October 2022, with deeply divided factions ...

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 ...

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 Aoun emerged as a leading candidate for ...

File pic: Reuters Aoun - no relation to the previous president Michel Aoun - has been chief of the Lebanese Army and was the preferred choice of the United States, France and Saudi Arabia ...

The presidency, reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October 2022, with deeply divided factions ...

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 ...

Analysts say Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday and is considered a man of “personal integrity”, could be the right candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun – no relation – whose term as ...

The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his predecessor, Michel Aoun – who is not related to the new president.

Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticized ruling politicians over Lebanon's financial collapse in 2021, saying soldiers were going ...