Any prolonged Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon could breathe new life into Hezbollah, a group that was founded to ...

General Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (and now newly elected president), at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, on June 26, 2018 (Arlington National Cemetery / ...

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and pledged to rebuild the state, adopt a policy of "positive neutrality" and ...

Three people were killed and 31 others wounded while trying to return to homes in south Lebanon as Israeli forces, defying a ...

The Lebanese army said Saturday it was ready to deploy its forces in the country's south, accusing Israel of "procrastination ...

After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...

Lebanon’s lawmakers elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more ... with Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah weakened by last year’s bruising conflict with Israel.

Some have argued that Joseph Aoun’s election violated the law ... and Saudi Arabia — and less the result of internal consensus. Hezbollah's war with Israel weakened the militant group, politically and ...

Israeli troops opened fire in south Lebanon on Sunday, killing 22 residents and a Lebanese soldier, health officials said as hundreds of people tried to return to their homes on the deadline for ...

General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and Hezbollah, ordering it to prioritize ...

Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces ... trains and arms the Lebanese military and helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah in November.