The January 2025 election of Joseph Aoun as Lebanese president marks a shift toward sovereignty and stability following Hezbollah's weakened influence after its war with Israel. Aoun faces major tests ...

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 ...

"To congratulate him and wish him success in these difficult circumstances, of course this is an obligation," says former ...

The Iran-backed militia is bowed but not broken – and it could still find a way to hijack Saudi funds for its own rehabilitation ...

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

JERUSALEM, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in ...

All this is in any case impossible right now: Lebanon has no president to oversee it. The post has been vacant since Michel Aoun ended his term in October 2022. The consensus choice for his ...

Even a request for the political advisor of Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hussein Khalil to intervene was declined, with Khalil stating he had already urged Frangieh to step aside twice in Lebanon's ...

The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged on Wednesday that a group of settlers crossed the northern border and entered Lebanon earlier this month, after initially saying that the activists had only ...

On June 9, 2025, the Lebanese parliament is set to elect a new president to replace Michel Aoun, whose term expired ... that has significantly undermined Lebanon’s sovereignty and contributed ...

In his meeting with Berri in Ain El-Tineh, the Qatari official discussed efforts to address Lebanon’s presidential vacancy, which has persisted since former President Michel Aoun left office in ...