Lebanon’s Parliament chose a U.S.-trained general as president, ending a two-year vacancy in a sign of Hezbollah’s waning ...

In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

Joseph Aoun is first president since 1990s not to be pre-approved by Tehran and Damascus, signaling an end to Iran-backed ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph ... agreement halted a 15-month conflict between ...

The Lebanese parliament finally voted on a new president on Thursday following two years of deadlock. Joseph Aoun the head of ...

The weakening of Hezbollah in last year's war with Israel allowed Lebanon's long deadlocked parliament to reach consensus ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph ... U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after its devastating war with Israel.

(AP Photo, File) The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc ... Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, ...

Lebanese lawmakers are set to meet in an attempt to elect a president - a position vacant for more than two years - but the ...

Lebanon’s Parliament elected a U.S.-trained general as president, ending a two-year vacancy in a sign of Hezbollah’s waning influence following a bruising war with Israel and the weakening of ...

BEIRUT-Lebanon’s Parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun ... US support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after its devastating war with Israel.

Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than ...