If you have read Executive’s 4-part explainer (see I, II, III, and IV) on Lebanon and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), you may have gained some new insights on the nature, history and aims of ...

The previous president, Michel Aoun, left office in October 2022. Parliament could not agree on a replacement. With no head of state, no one could appoint a prime minister.

The altercation became so intense that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was forced to intervene, instructing his deputy, Elias Bou Saab, to escort Salim Aoun out of the chamber to restore order. Lebanon ...

Aoun, who has led the Lebanese army since 2017, became the fifth army commander in Lebanon’s history to ascend to the presidency, the fourth in a row, and the 14th president overall.

Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected Gen. Joseph Aoun as the 14th president of the country after a two-year vacancy of the position. Friday, June 27, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

The Lebanese Parliament elected Army Commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president in its second session on Thursday, ending a presidential vacuum that lasted over two years.

"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 ...

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group ...

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, Aoun ...

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.

Lebanon's 13th President Michel Aoun left office after serving from 31 October 31, 2016, to October 30, 2022. Today, the Lebanese lawmakers gathered inside the parliament and agreed on Joseph Aoun ...

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.