The U.S. Department of Justice vigorously opposed at a French court hearing in December the release of a Lebanese militant ...

The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and ...

The Vatican's top diplomat met with papal representatives to various Middle Eastern countries to discuss possible avenues ...

Lebanon’s parliament elected a new president on January 9 after a two-year political deadlock and 13 failed attempts. Joseph ...

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.

Presidents in Lebanon are brought to power by near political consensus, but more than six contenders were still in play.

Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

It ended when former president Michel Aoun was elected. The president’s role in Lebanon ... but his term was extended twice ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him ...

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

With the election of Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun on Thursday (January 9), a two-year period marked by a political vacuum under a previous caretaker government has ended. "Aoun was seen as the ...