The U.S. Department of Justice vigorously opposed at a French court hearing in December the release of a Lebanese militant ...

The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and ...

Lebanon’s parliament elected a new president on January 9 after a two-year political deadlock and 13 failed attempts. Joseph ...

The Lebanese parliament failed on Thursday to elect a new president for the country, in its first session, the official ...

Joseph Aoun, 61, Lebanon’s army commander, takes the role of president after over two years of the seat being empty and 13 attempts to vote in a leader.

Then, a Saudi delegation headed by the kingdom’s envoy, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a week. It held a blitz of meetings with various political parties. By the time ...

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

The Mediterranean country has been without a president since the term of Michel Aoun - not related - ended in October 2022 ..

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

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

With the election of Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun on Thursday (January 9), a two-year period marked by a political vacuum under a previous caretaker government has ended. "Aoun was seen as the ...

Since former president Michel Aoun left office October of 2022 ... which has had almost all of its old leadership destroyed and key figures killed by Israel, most notably its long-term ...