The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... political weakening of Hezbollah following its war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Assad, in Syria, along ...

Following the bitter objections of the "Shiite Duo" to Dr. Nawaf Salam’s designation as prime minister, he is seeking to reassure them by stressing that he has two choices: "accommodation" or ...

weeks after Israel and Lebanon entered a 60-day cease-fire. The political division had derailed Lebanon, leaving the country without a president following the end of the tenure of Michel Aoun — who is ...

The U.S. Department of Justice vigorously opposed at a French court hearing in December the release of a Lebanese militant ...

Lebanon’s new president has demanded that Israel must withdraw from his country ... of the international community,” President Joseph Aoun’s office said on Saturday after his meeting ...

His remarks follow a speech by Hizbollah leader Naim Qassem who accused Israel of hundreds of ceasefire violations, warning it against testing “our patience” and calling on the Lebanese state to be ...

Analysts say Hezbollah's weakening in the war with Israel last year allowed Lebanon's deeply divided political class to elect Aoun and to back his naming of Salam as premier. Islamist-led rebels ...

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met with visiting UN Secretary-General ... southern Lebanon within the deadline set by the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire deal. "Continued Israeli violations on land ...

Lebanon's new president said on Saturday Israel must withdraw from the country's south by the January 26 deadline set to fully implement the terms of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreed last year.