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

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate ... said that the military and ...

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 ...

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

After more than two years of presidential deadlock, Joseph Aoun has been elected the 14th President of Lebanon.

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

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

The heavy blows dealt by Israel during the conflict ... a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022.

The ceasefire ended fighting that began in October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in support of ... vacant since former President Michel Aoun stepped down in October 2022.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Thursday congratulated Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun on becoming president, after more than two years of a presidential vacuum in the politically unstable ...

The vote also took place less than two months into the ceasefire that ended a devastating war between Israel and the Lebanese ... for the previous president Michel Aoun, whose term was a utter ...