Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022. Accessibility links.

Former army chief Joseph Aoun after being elected as Lebanon's president at the parliament building in Beirut on January 9, 2025. Mohamed Azakir/Reuters. Beirut, Lebanon CNN — ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Michel Aoun, Lebanon's strong-willed Christian leader, has waited more than three decades for the chance to become president. On Monday, the 81-year-old politician finally ...

On Aoun's watch, US aid has continued to flow to the army, part of a US policy focused on supporting state institutions to curb the influence of Hezbollah, which Washington deems a terrorist group ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he hopes Iran-backed Hezbollah can be disarmed this year, following an Israeli military campaign that left the group decapitated and significantly weakened ...

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, ordering it to ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament elected Michel Aoun as the country's president on Monday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the top post and a political crisis that brought state institutions ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected its US-backed army chief to be the country’s next president, ending a years-long political stalemate and presidential vacuum.

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 ...