Lebanon has elected a president following a two-year deadlock and power vacuum, signaling a weakened Hezbollah.

The 60-year-old career soldier is the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected president in the country's history ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022.

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 ...

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say ...

Hezbollah is the best armed militant group ... without a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022.

The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second ...

Suleiman’s successor, Michel Aoun, largely left the group unchallenged but alienated Lebanon’s allies in the Persian Gulf. With Hezbollah largely beaten on the battlefield, some of the group ...

Hezbollah has emerged bruised from the conflict ... including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ...

a government,” Mr Michel Mouawad, a Christian lawmaker opposed to Hezbollah who voted for Gen Aoun, told Reuters. “We did get a message from Saudi of support,” he added. The Saudi King and ...

After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...