Who is Joseph Aoun, a low-profile army chief who is now Lebanon…
13 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
1 day ago · Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander, Joseph Aoun, as 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.
Joseph Aoun: US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, …
1 day ago · Lebanon had been without a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022. The former president was backed by Iran ...
Who is Joseph Aoun, the new president of Lebanon?
1 day ago · Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon.. The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his ...
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 ...
Lebanon elects General Joseph Aoun, the head of country's ... - Sky News
1 day ago · Lebanon has elected a new president after multiple failed attempts had left the country without a head of state since 2022. General Joseph Aoun, head of the country's army since 2017, received the ...
Lebanon's parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president
2 days ago · Mr Aoun's election is a first step towards reviving government institutions in a country that has had neither a head of state nor a fully empowered cabinet since Michael Aoun left office. Lebanon ...
Lebanon's parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as …
1 day ago · BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous cease ...
Lebanon Elects US-Backed President Aoun In Shift From Iran
2 days ago · Lebanon lawmakers elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a US-backed candidate in a sign of Iran’s waning influence in the region.
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