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 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 more than two years of vacancy in the Presidency of Lebanon, the until now chief of the Army, Joseph Aoun, was ...

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 ...

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

People celebrate in the streets of Klayaa, Lebanon, on Tuesday after Joseph Aoun was elected president. (Karamallah Daher/Reuters) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar congratulated Lebanon ...

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday ... but that needs a president, a government," Michel Mouawad, a Christian lawmaker opposed to Hezbollah who voted ...

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 ...

(AP Video by Fadi Tawil, Mahmad Aounti and Zakaria El Khatib) The Uniited Nations Security Council has welcomed the election of a Lebanese president. Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army ...

Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the war-battered country.

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