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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...