Joseph Aoun - Wikipedia
Joseph Khalil Aoun (Arabic: جوزيف خليل عون, born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese general who has served as the 14th Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017. He began his career in the Lebanese Army in 1983, and was steadily promoted until he reached the rank of Brigadier General in 2013.
Joseph Aoun | Lebanon, President, Army, & Hezbollah and Israel
6 days ago · Joseph Aoun (born January 10, 1964, Sin el Fil, Lebanon) is the president of Lebanon (2025– ) and was previously the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF; 2017–25). Having overseen the army amid popular unrest in 2019 and during Israel’s invasion in 2024, he is generally considered a neutral and trusted figure within Lebanon’s polarized and sometimes sectarian political system.
Who is Joseph Aoun, the new president of Lebanon?
Jan 9, 2025 · Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon. The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his...
Joseph Aoun: US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, …
Jan 9, 2025 · Lebanon ’s parliament has elected the US-backed army chief to be the country’s new president, ending a years-long political stalemate and presidential vacuum. Army chief Joseph Aoun was voted...
Who is Joseph Aoun, a low-profile army chief who is now Lebanon…
Jan 10, 2025 · BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is no-nonsense, kind and averse to affiliating himself with any party or even expressing a political opinion — a rarity for someone in Lebanon’s fractured, transactional political system.
Joseph Aoun: Army chief elected Lebanon's president - BBC
Jan 9, 2025 · Lebanon's parliament has elected the country's army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years.
Lebanon elects country's army commander as president | AP News
Jan 10, 2025 · 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. It was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022.
Who is Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander elected …
Jan 9, 2025 · Item 1 of 3 Lebanon's army chief Joseph Aoun walks after being elected as the country's President at the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, January 9, 2025.
Lebanon parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president
Jan 9, 2025 · Joseph Aoun is Lebanon’s fifth army commander to become president, and the fourth in a row. Aoun is widely seen as the preferred pick of the United States and regional heavyweight...
Lebanon elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president following …
Jan 9, 2025 · Lebanese lawmakers have elected army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending more than two years of political stalemate in a sign of Hizbollah’s diminished influence in the country following...