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

It got disturbed due to the fading influence of these two old colonialisms and the rise of US imperialism ... However, the ...

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who ... right candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun – no relation – whose ...

“A new phase in the history of Lebanon begins today,” 60-year-old Aoun told the chamber after ... s 13th attempt to find a successor for Michel Aoun – not related – whose term ended ...

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.

While their family names are identical, Joseph Aoun and Michel Aoun are not related ... parliament speaker and Hezbollah ally, 86-year-old Nabih Berri, has invited Le Drian to attend Thursday's ...

General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, ordering it to ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and averse to affiliating himself with any ...

Lebanon's parliament has elected the country's army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years.

Aoun, a 60-year-old career soldier ... including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ruling ...

At one point, according to video shared by Al Jazeera English’s news editor, Saad Abedine, a legislator put in a vote for Sanders, the 83-year-old Vermont independent who is the unofficial dean ...