With the fall of Assad in December, the election of Aoun and Salam in Lebanon marks the second dramatic political shift in ...

The Israeli army on Saturday warned residents of dozens of Lebanese villages near the border against returning until further ...

General Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (and now newly elected president), at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, on June 26, 2018 (Arlington National Cemetery / ...

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

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous cease-fire ...

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

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and pledged to rebuild the state, adopt a policy of "positive neutrality" and ...

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys US approval and showing the diminished sway of the Iran-backed ...

The former leader has no relation to Joseph Aoun. However, this time ... been stage-managed by countries like the United States and Israel, whose foreign minister offered a rare congratulations ...

The Israeli government is seeking to keep military positions in southern Lebanon past a Sunday withdrawal deadline, set in a ...

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war ...

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