This is particularly true in Lebanon, especially following new fractures in the Hezbollah-Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) alliance. In the closing days of 2021, President Michel ...

Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army ...

LEBANESE PRESIDENT Michel Aoun (right ... before seeing its role eclipsed by Iran and Hezbollah. Aoun, head of Lebanon's U.S.-backed army, would still need 86 votes because his election requires ...

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 ...

An exception is Michel Aoun, who led the Free Patriotic Movement ... He was supported by Iran-backed Hezbollah and Amal, the Shia political party of parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

The election scheduled for Thursday is Lebanon’s latest bid to elect a leader after several failed attempts since Michel Aoun ... conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia ...

Hezbollah's support was vital to propelling Michel Aoun to the presidency in 2016, as the group and factions which supported its possession of a powerful arsenal were in the ascendant. A State ...

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh ...

Il succède ainsi au général Michel Aoun, sans lien de parenté. Le candidat des Etats-Unis, de l’Arabie saoudite et de Paris Le Hezbollah avait auparavant soutenu un autre candidat ...

The session was the legislature's 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader ...

The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel ... group Hezbollah - which propelled its then Christian ally Aoun to ...

a government," Michel Mouawad, a Christian lawmaker opposed to Hezbollah who voted for Aoun, told Reuters before the vote. "We did get a message from Saudi of support," he added. The Saudi king ...