Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

The Presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system and has been vacant since Michel ... of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighboring Syria.

with officials seeing better odds of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's assault on Hezbollah and the toppling of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The post, reserved for ...

Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as its president ... of its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December. In his acceptance speech ...