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

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

"To congratulate him and wish him success in these difficult circumstances, of course this is an obligation," says former Lebanese president Michel Aoun after meeting newly elected president Joseph ...

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

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 ...

Under the High Patronage of His Excellency, The President of the Republic of Lebanon General Michel SLEIMAN, more than 200 young leaders from the Arab world will convene in Beirut from 16 to 18 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Democratic Gathering bloc announced the need to elect a president in the session scheduled for January 9, expressing its support for the election of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun as president ...

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 ...