It is an issue that dominated Michel Aoun’s presidency in Lebanon (2016-2022) and was central to Turkey’s presidential election in 2023. In Europe, numerous countries had begun to talk openly ...

Lebanon’s former president, Michel Aoun (not related to Joseph Aoun) was a longtime ally of Hezbollah. The group had hoped it could install another ally into the presidential palace by ...

Joseph Aoun is backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia – and has pledged to dismantle Hezbollah’s military wing Newly elected Lebanese president Joseph Aoun reviews an honour guard upon ...

This was the fractious parliament’s 13th try to replace President Michel Aoun (no relation) who left office when his six-year term ended in October 2022. Joseph Aoun is the fourth consecutive ...

Aoun headed the country’s army since 2017 and was selected Thursday to succeed Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. The two are not related. Joseph Aoun was sworn into office as ...

Aoun’s predecessor is the Hezbollah-backed former President Michel Aoun (the two are not related). His tenure, which ended more than two years ago, was widely seen as an era of Iranian ...

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

During the 2019 protests, which were partly driven by forces under the direction of the U.S. embassy in Beirut with the goal of overthrowing the government of Saad Hariri and President Michel Aoun, ...

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 ...

One of the most influential Christian parties in the country, the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.