Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than ...

Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a political neophyte whose position as head of ...

The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his predecessor, Michel Aoun ... United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ...

Widely seen as the preferred pick of the US, as well as regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia, he is perceived ... right candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun – no relation – whose term ...

Backed by the US and Saudi Arabia, Aoun is seen as crucial to stabilising ... placed to rebuild Lebanon after his predecessor, Michel Aoun (no relation), vacated the presidency in 2022.

The presidency, reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun ... from Saudi Arabia — hinged on Aoun’s election.

Lebanon has elected a new president after multiple failed attempts had left the country without a head of state since 2022. General Joseph Aoun, head of the country's army since 2017, received the ...

Widely seen as the preferred pick of army backer the United States, as well as regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia, he is perceived as being ... could be the right candidate to finally replace Michel ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel ... Aoun was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose ...