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General Joseph Aoun was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States, which funds, trains, and arms the ...
Lebanon's parliament faces a decisive presidential vote amid regional turmoil, with Hezbollah and allies shifting their support away from divisive candidate Suleiman Frangieh to potentially less ...
Lebanon's parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the ...
Hezbollah — which has been weakened politically and militarily by the war with Israel — previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian party in northern ...
Three other former army chiefs - Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun - have served as president. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said the constitution would need to be amended in order ...
Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh ... It ended when former President Michel Aoun was elected. As a sitting army commander, Joseph Aoun is technically barred from ...