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 ...

Lebanon’s army chief, Joseph Aoun, was elected president in the second round of the presidential vote held on Thursday, local ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

"To congratulate him and wish him success in these difficult circumstances, of course this is an obligation," says former ...

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

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