Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon. The 61-year-old becomes ...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to ...

US and Saudi-backed Joseph Aoun, tasked with upholding ceasefire ending fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, promises state ...

The new president has promised to help fight corruption and crack down on smuggling, end impunity for criminals, and work for an independent judiciary.

A devastating economic crisis, a political power vacuum, massive corruption and most recently the war between Hezbollah and ...

President Joseph Aoun said a "new phase" had begun with Israel expressing hope that his election would bring stability.

Lebanon's new President Joseph Aoun told parliament on Thursday that the country was entering a new phase, in his first speech after being elected head of the crisis-hit country.

Lebanese government bonds extended their three-month-long rally on Thursday as the crisis-ravaged country's parliament voted ...

Iran ‘s top general in Syria acknowledged they were “defeated very badly” with the collapse of the Assad regime, which ...

Lebanese army commander elected president weeks after a tenuous cease-fire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between ...

As the country endured economic crisis and a devastating war, lawmakers failed 12 times to pick a head of state. They have ...

The outcome reflected shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah badly pummelled from last year's war, and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad toppled ...