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 ...

NNA - Lebanon's First Lady, Neemat Aoun, on Monday received at Baabda Palace, the President of the Beirut Marathon Association, May El-Khalil, and an accompanying delegation. Th ...

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 ...

In addition to his native Arabic language, Aoun is fluent in English and French. He is married to Nehmat Nehmeh and together they have two children, Khalil and Nour. The family attended the second ...

Hopes are rising that Lebanon’s new government, following the election of army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday ... of ministers authorised current finance minister Yousef Khalil to have ...

Negotiations on two key issues, Israel's intention to maintain control over five sites in South Lebanon and the fate of ...

Joseph Aoun was born on January 10, 1964, in Sin El-Fil to Hoda Ibrahim Makhlouta and Khalil Aoun. Aoun completed secondary school at the Collège des Frères Mont La Salle. His family is originally ...

Lebanon has taken politics back after an absence that had gone on for decades in the aftermath of the coup against the Taif Agreement and the constitution. The Syrian earthquake, which was preceded by ...