In his inaugural speech to parliament, President Aoun outlined a series of pledges to deal with the overlapping crises that have brought Lebanon to the point of collapse. However, delivering on ...

Lebanon’s parliament has chosen the head of the country’s armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, after going more than two years without one. Aoun’s selection on Thursday is ...

In Lebanon's power-sharing system, the positions of army commander and president are reserved for ... In 2021, Joseph Aoun made this point to his men, scathing the inaction of the political ...

President Xi Jinping extended congratulations on Tuesday to Joseph Aoun on assuming the presidency of Lebanon, expressing the willingness to work together with the newly elected leader to promote ...

Salem points to the broader shift in regional ... as president does not grant him absolute power in Lebanon’s political system. "The president is not the most powerful position in Lebanon.

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun president Thursday, ending a political deadlock that had kept the office vacant since October 2022. Aoun, 60, won 99 of 128 votes.

The United States and Qatar both at one point subsidized soldiers' salaries. Ed Gabriel, president of the American Task Force on Lebanon, a nonprofit that aims to build stronger U.S.-Lebanon ties ...

New U.S. envoy aims to keep Hezbollah out of Lebanon's government, amid ongoing tensions and ceasefire violations.

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild.