Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – The weakening of Hezbollah in last year's war with Israel allowed Lebanon's long deadlocked parliament to reach consensus around a president who has the confidence of ...

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

BEIRUT-Lebanon’s Parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Jan 9, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has US support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s army chief, Gen. Joseph Aoun, was elected president on Thursday after a more than two-year vacuum at the top position in the country amid deepening political rivalries, economic and ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected the US-backed army chief to be the country’s new president, ending a years-long political stalemate and presidential vacuum. Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted ...

which meets in Beirut’s Nejmeh Square, voted and Aoun was elected in the second round of elections, with 99 out of 128 votes. He is the 14th president of the Republic of Lebanon. The new ...

Lebanon's army chief Joseph Aoun (centre) leaves the parliament after his election as the country's president in Beirut on Jan 9, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Anwar Amro) Parliament speaker Nabih Berri ...

It was a last-minute push by Saudi Arabia that decided Lebanon’s fate on Thursday ... Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a week. It held a blitz of meetings ...

Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun poses for a photograph at the presidential palace — Fadel ITANI The weakening of Hezbollah in last year's war with Israel allowed Lebanon's long ... the ...

His win ends a lengthy power vacuum and represents a pivot by Beirut toward the West, with Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah weakened by last year’s bruising conflict with Israel.