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

Analysts say Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday and is considered a man of “personal integrity”, could be the right candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun – no relation – whose term as ...

This was the fractious parliament’s 13th try to replace President Michel Aoun (no relation) who left office when ... which installed itself in the wake of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war (1975-1990).

Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in ... have been reduced since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. But filling the position was key to overseeing ...

As Lebanon will move to fill the presidential vacancy left unoccupied since 2022 on Thursday, the Hezbollah-endorsed candidate has dropped out with the odds favoring Joseph Aoun, leader of the ...

Aoun’s predecessor, Michel Aoun (no relation), stepped down ... After Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990, the powers of the presidency were reduced. But the president still ...

But the one in Baabda, in the hills above Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, has been vacant since October 2022, when Michel Aoun finished ... by the memory of civil war, symbolism is important too ...

The tiny war-battered country has been without a president since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October ... In a country still scarred by a 1975-1990 civil war, the divided political elite usually ...

Lebanon’s lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday ... been reduced since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. But filling the position is key to overseeing ...

Aoun’s official Lebanese army biography states that he enrolled in the military academy in 1983, during the Lebanese civil war. He steadily ... And when President Michel Aoun vacated the ...

With the transfer of the Palestinian resistance’s centre of gravity from Jordan to Lebanon, tensions escalated anew until the Lebanon War erupted ... especially after Michel Aoun’s complete ...