BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect Gen. Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as the country’s new president, ending a years-long leadership vacuum that hobbled the ...
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 ...
Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is ...
After more than two years of vacancy in the Presidency of Lebanon, the until now chief of the Army, Joseph Aoun, was appointed this Thursday for a six-year term, committing to rebuilding the country ...
Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the war-battered country.
Joseph Aoun, centre, and Lebanese parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, right, stand after Aoun is elected president at the parliament building in Beirut, on Tuesday. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters ...
After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...
French Ambassador to Beirut Herve Magro on Tuesday met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Tuesday to discuss preparations for French President Emmanuel ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, ...
(AP Video by Fadi Tawil, Mahmad Aounti and Zakaria El Khatib) The Uniited Nations Security Council has welcomed the election of a Lebanese president. Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army ...
BEIRUT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group ...
Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon. The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his pred ...