Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Bilal Saab, a former Pentagon ...

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s Parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Jan 9, filling the vacant presidency with a ...

Presidents in Lebanon are brought to power by near political consensus, but more than six contenders were still in play.

Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

The new president, a favorite of Washington, Paris and Riyadh, says he wants to rebuild his country, now in tatters.

Lebanese PM Najib Mikati visits Damascus for talks with new Syrian leader amid improving relations and regional developments.

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

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

Joseph Aoun president Thursday, ending a political deadlock that had kept the office vacant since October 2022. Aoun, 60, won ...

The Iran-backed militia is bowed but not broken – and it could still find a way to hijack Saudi funds for its own rehabilitation ...

Middle Eastcategory US, Arab mediators make some progress in Gaza talks, no deal yet, sources say January 10, 2025 Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest ...

Indigenous people and rural communities in the Philippines are facing human rights abuses amid nickel mining expansion, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. Amnesty ...