Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun called Thursday for a comprehensive defense policy to counter Israeli assaults and for dialogue with neighboring Syria. Aoun was elected by the Lebanese ...

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army ...

Shortly after his appointment as commander, the army waged an offensive to clear Islamic State terrorists from an enclave at the Syrian border ... head of state, Michel Aoun, who is no relation.

Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun on Thursday became the ... Lebanon’s northeastern border with Syria in Ras Baalbeck and al-Qaa. Then-president Michel Aoun, who is not related to the army ...

Three other former army chiefs - Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun - have served as president ... pitting factions backed by Iran and Syria against others supported by the West ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... party in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh ...

Shortly after his appointment as commander, the army waged an offensive to clear Islamic State militants from an enclave at the Syrian border ... last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation.

The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his predecessor, Michel Aoun ... terrain between Syria and Lebanon ...

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... party in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh ...

While 12 previous attempts have failed to choose a successor to former President Michel Aoun, whose term ended ... Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad.