The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022.
The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second ...
Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than ...
Lebanon's last president, Michel Aoun, left office two years ago, and the position has remained vacant since. He bears no ...
LEBANESE PRESIDENT Michel Aoun (right ... before seeing its role eclipsed by Iran and Hezbollah. Aoun, head of Lebanon's U.S.-backed army, would still need 86 votes because his election requires ...
After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...
The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh ...
The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel ... group Hezbollah - which propelled its then Christian ally Aoun to ...
Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa has said last ... Three other former army chiefs - Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun - have served as president. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has ...