Kuwaiti FM, GCC Chief Visit Lebanon, Pledge Support
( MENAFN - IANS) Beirut, Jan 24 (IANS) Kuwait's foreign Minister and the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) arrived ...
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Who's In The Frame To Become Lebanon's Next President?
Three other former army chiefs - Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun - have served as president ... pitting factions backed by Iran and Syria against others supported by the West ...
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Lebanon’s new president calls for comprehensive defense policy, dialogue with Syria
Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun called Thursday for a comprehensive defense policy to counter Israeli assaults and for dialogue with neighboring Syria. Aoun was elected by the Lebanese ...
Lebanon's Parliament Elects Army Commander Joseph Aoun as President, Ending a 2-Year Deadlock
Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum ...
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Hezbollah candidate expected to withdraw from Lebanon's presidential elections - report
LEBANESE PRESIDENT Michel Aoun (right) shakes hands with Nizar Zakka ... of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighboring Syria. The post, reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's ...
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Lebanon's parliament chooses army commander Aoun as president, ending long deadlock
Aoun, no relation to former president Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... party in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh ...
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Lebanon's new president, Joseph Aoun, says a new phase has begun
Restoring "best relations" with the Arab countries, especially the rich Gulf states and new post-Assad Syria, was another ... former Army commander Michel Aoun, after a 29-month vacuum in the ...