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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.
Aoun, a 60-year-old career soldier, became the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected as president in Lebanon's history, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the post.
Lebanon’s parliament has elected its US-backed army chief to be the country’s next president, ending a years-long political stalemate and presidential vacuum.
Aoun commanded the Lebanese army's 9th infantry brigade before being appointed army chief in March 2017. During his tenure as commander, he oversaw the army’s response to a series of crises, beginning with a battle to push out Islamist militants from the Islamic State group and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, who were then operating in eastern ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous ceasefire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and at a time when Lebanon’s leaders are ...
Joseph Aoun (born 1964) 8 March 2017: 9 January 2025: 7 years, 307 days [3] – Major General Hassan Audi (born 1968) acting: 9 January 2025 Incumbent: 32 days [4 ...
Joseph Aoun – army commander and president of Lebanon since 9 January 2025; Emile Boustany – former army commander; Jean Kahwaji – former army commander; Samir El-Khadem – former commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian; Émile Lahoud – former army commander; Jamil Al Sayyed – former Lebanese General Security Director
Gen. Joseph Aoun, Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces; Website: ... Khalil Hrawi (born 1948) 26 October 2000: 17 April 2003: 2 years, 173 days: Independent: 28: