Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon’s cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacates the presidential palace on Sunday, ...

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.

Decks cleared for Michel Aoun’s return. The Lebanese government has dropped charges against an anti-Syria former general accused of seizing power and imposing military rule, days before his ...

Festooned on row after row of tents in central Beirut are posters of Michel Aoun - a Maronite Christian who heads the Free Patriotic Movement - and Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. The ...

Lebanon has a new president, Joseph Aoun Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

The protesters broke into the meeting room at the ministry and turned a framed picture of President Michel Aoun upside down before removing it. They replaced it with a banner in Arabic that read ...

Mr Aoun, an army commander during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, is known to have aspired to the presidential post. He is the fourth Lebanese president from a military background.

Former general Michel Aoun has won a parliamentary vote to become president of Lebanon. Aoun's name was indicated in a majority of 83 ballots in the second round of voting, after falling two votes ...

Five children were arrested in Lebanon on Saturday after tearing down a poster of President Michel Aoun in the Hammana municipality, several local news stations reported. All of the boys were ...

A group of protesters have stormed a ministry building in Beirut as the Lebanese pound hit new lows amid a worsening economic and political stalemate ...