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 ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and averse to affiliating himself with any party or ...

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 ...

After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous cease-fire ...

Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

Lebanon elected General Joseph Aoun, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), as president earlier this month, ending a more than two-year presidential vacuum. Just days later, Nawaf Salam ...

They have now settled on Joseph Aoun, the leader of the military. By Euan Ward and Dayana Iwaza Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Lebanon’s fractured Parliament overcame more than two years of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun has begun binding consultations with members of parliament to nominate a prime minister. Aoun’s consultations got under way at 8:15am (06:15 GMT ...