Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected as the country’s president, ending a power vacuum that lasted for more than two years. Aoun secured 99 votes from the 128-seat parliament to ...

General Joseph Aoun, head of the country's army since 2017, received the required number of parliamentary votes in the second round of voting on Thursday afternoon. He is a Maronite Christian ...

Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect the country's army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous ...