Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum.
Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese Army, now holds the presidency, following the terms of his predecessors: Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman, and Michel Aoun. This came after the Lebanese ...
Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese Army, now holds the presidency, following the terms of his predecessors: Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman, and Michel Aoun. This came after the Lebanese ...
(Reuters/representative) While 12 previous attempts have failed to choose a successor to former President Michel Aoun ... backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small ...
In 2014, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel in September, locked horns with the country’s president, Michel Suleiman, over its growing arsenal of weapons. Suleiman’s ...
Michel Aoun – no relation – whose term ended in October 2022. Joseph Aoun’s election comes after Hezbollah had previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, with close ties to ...
Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as its president, ending a two-year ...
The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun — no relation to the army ... war with Israel — previously backed another candidate, Suleiman ...