Bilal Saab, a former Pentagon official who is now senior managing director of the TRENDS US consulting firm, often met Aoun while overseeing Washington's security cooperation in the Middle East.

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a ...

US President Joe Biden welcomed the election of Joseph Aoun as Lebanon’s president on Thursday (Friday, Manila time), saying in a ...

Aoun took the oath of office after the formal ... Saudi representative Yazid Al-Farhan, and French diplomat Jean-Yves Le Drian held meetings with key Lebanese political figures to discuss the ...

Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday ... US, Saudi and French envoys visited Beirut in the run-up, while French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian attended the vote. Several lawmakers in the second round still ...

Aoun fell short of the 86 votes needed in a first ... including the French special envoy Jean-Yves Le Druan and ambassadors of the Quint committee (Egypt, France, USA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia ...