It ended when former President Michel Aoun was elected. The president's role in Lebanon is limited under the power-sharing system in which the president is always a Maronite Christian, the prime ...

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

The Mediterranean country had been without a president since the term of Michel Aoun ended ... to Lebanon Lisa Johnson, who attended Thursday’s session at the Lebanese parliament along with ...

Lebanon's last president, Michel Aoun, left office two years ago ... the prime minister Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament Shiite Muslim. The president of Lebanon is elected in a first ...

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial meltdown.

Lebanon's parliament has elected the country's army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect ... Aoun, no relation to former president Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi ...

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday ... assistance for reconstruction. Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ...