Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Jan. 9, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a ...
Presidents in Lebanon are brought to power by near political consensus, but more than six contenders were still in play.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati will on Saturday make his first official trip to neighbouring Syria since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, his office told AFP.
The weakening of Hezbollah in last year's war with Israel allowed Lebanon's long deadlocked parliament to reach consensus ...
Joseph Aoun has wide-reaching support, including from Hezbollah and Israel. The political Hezbollah faction as well as its ...
Lebanon's new President Joseph Aoun will start consultations with political parties towards naming a prime minister from next week, the presidency said on Friday.