The new head of state is elected in the second round of voting this afternoon with 99 votes out of 128. Sources tell AsiaNews that Saudi and Quintet support was key. His first tasks include ...

Khalil said Aoun was the one who had turned the “principle of participation into a confiscation under the sectarian title and slogans of the movement.” He expressed his surprise at Bassil's ...

Deputies in the Lebanese Parliament have accused President Michel Aoun of acting “as a party, not as a president entrusted with the constitution.” On Saturday, MP Anwar Al-Khalil said that Aou ...

Speaker Nabih Berri’s political aide MP Ali Hassan Khalil admitted overnight that Hezbollah and the Amal Movement did not discuss with President Joseph Aoun -- prior to his election -- the issue of ...

President Joseph Aoun held two meetings prior to his election with the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad and Speaker Nabih Berri’s aide MP Ali Hassan Khalil, a media report said.

The consensus had been achieved before the second round of election, during a meeting Mohammad Raad and Ali Hassan Khalil held with Joseph Aoun, who allayed the Shiite duo’s military, security and ...