Joseph Aoun, 61, Lebanon’s army commander, takes the role of president after over two years of the seat being empty and 13 attempts to vote in a leader.

Widely seen as the preferred pick of army backer the United States, as well as regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia ... candidate to finally replace Michel Aoun, no relation, whose term as president ...

The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Saturday agreed with his Lebanese ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild.

In a phone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who had called to congratulate him on winning the elections, Aoun said, ...

After former president Michel Aoun ended his term of office on October 31 ... what broke the deadlock was the intensified pressure from the US and Saudi Arabia, and the recent hostilities between ...

Lebanon's newly-elected President Joseph Aoun announced Saturday that he will visit Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Saudi ...

Then, a Saudi delegation headed by the kingdom’s envoy, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, flew into Beirut for the second time in a ...

The political division had derailed Lebanon, leaving the country without a president following the end of the tenure of Michel Aoun — who ... Leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates ...

Why had Saudi Arabia expended so much diplomatic capital ... Aoun’s predecessor is the Hezbollah-backed former President Michel Aoun (the two are not related). His tenure, which ended more ...