Though Lebanon’s presidency is mostly symbolic, it has a few important powers, like approving prime ministers and cabinets. In a country still haunted by the memory of civil war, symbolism is ...

The election took place six weeks after Lebanon's government agreed a ceasefire to end a devastating war between Israel and ...

Lebanon’s parliament chose a U.S.-trained general as president, ending a two-year vacancy in a sign of Hezbollah’s waning ...

Lebanon’s parliament chose the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday that more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end ...

Lebanon's new President Joseph Aoun told parliament on Thursday that the country was entering a new phase, in his first speech after being elected head of the crisis-hit country.

The outcome showed the diminished sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group after its devastating war with Israel.

General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of ...

The election of army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun garnered rare consensus among the Lebanese, backed by the United States and ...

Lebanon elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a US-backed ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected its US-backed army chief to be the country’s next president, ending a years-long political ...

Greeks bid farewell on Thursday to former prime minister Costas Simitis, a law professor and reformist, who died last week at ...