Beirut: 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 ...

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 / ...

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

Widely seen as US, Saudi Arabia's first choice, the 61-year-old general has forged relations across Lebanon's sectarian divides but is often criticized by Hezbollah affiliates ...

Choice of UN court's Nawaf Salam underlines major power shift among sectarian factions in Beirut since Iran-backed Shiite ...

Lebanon's new president Joseph Aoun, speaking to visiting United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, added that Israel's ongoing ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - 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 armed group Hezbollah, ...

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys US approval and showing the diminished sway of the Iran-backed ...

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

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 ...

Israel and the Lebanese militant group agreed in November to an American- and French-mediated ceasefire, ending more than a year of fighting ...

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war ...