Who is Joseph Aoun, a low-profile army chief who is now Lebanon…
18 hours ago · BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and averse to affiliating himself with any party or even expressing a political opinion — a rarity for someone in Lebanon’s fractured, transactional political system.
Joseph Aoun: Army chief elected Lebanon's president - BBC News
1 day ago · Lebanon's parliament has elected the country's army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years. Joseph Aoun's candidacy for the mainly ceremonial role - which is ...
Lebanon elects country's army commander as president | AP News
2 days ago · Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. It was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022.
Lebanon parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president
1 day ago · Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected as the country’s president, ending a power vacuum that lasted for more than two years. Aoun secured 99 votes from the 128-seat parliament to ...
Joseph Aoun: US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s …
1 day ago · Lebanon’s parliament has elected the US-backed army chief to be the country’s new president, ending a years-long political stalemate and presidential vacuum. Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted ...
Lebanon's parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president
2 days ago · Aoun previously held the post of Lebanon's army commander, and is the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected as president in Lebanon's history. Gideon Sa'ar, Foreign Affairs Minister, March ...
Lebanon Elects Army Chief Joseph Aoun as President
1 day ago · Lawmakers elected Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, by an overwhelming majority in the second round of voting, with 99 votes in the 128-seat Parliament, after he failed to ...
Joseph Aoun, Lebanon’s respected army chief becomes new …
1 day ago · Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group ...
Lebanon's army chief elected president, showing regional shifts - NBC News
1 day ago · Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys U.S. approval and showing the diminished sway of the Iran ...
Lebanon's parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as …
1 day ago · BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a ...