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

(Bloomberg) -- Lebanese lawmakers will ... with army commander Joseph Aoun one of the two main candidates to lead a country battered by months of war and years of economic crisis.

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of ... The president's powers have been reduced since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. Since 2019, Lebanon has been ...

Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in ... have been reduced since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. But filling the position was key to overseeing ...

Joseph Aoun ... since the 1975-90 civil war. Aoun played a key role in shoring up a 60-day ceasefire brokered by the US and France in November. The terms require the Lebanese military to deploy ...

This was the fractious parliament’s 13th try to replace President Michel Aoun (no relation ... political wing has cultivated the Lebanese public which demands an end to war, economic recovery and ...

Lebanon's last president, Michel Aoun, left office two years ago ... who participated in the country's devastating 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, making presidential elections difficult.

The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel ... of securing the election of Aoun, who Lebanese political sources ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun ... round of voting showed Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun as the frontrunner, receiving ...

The outcome reflected shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Hezbollah group badly pummelled from last year’s war ... vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended ...

Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun on Thursday became the country’s 14th president, filling the top seat that has been vacant since Michel Aoun ... including the War Medal three times, the ...