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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.
Michel Aoun, former president of the republic. The Aoun family is a Maronite family that was recently established as political via Michel Aoun's daughters. [2] Aoun's second child, Claudine Aoun, married politician and former brigadier general, Chamel Roukoz.
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, ordering it to ...
General Joseph Aoun, 60, has been commander of the U.S.-backed Lebanese army since 2017, leading the military through a devastating financial crisis that paralysed much of the Lebanese state after ...
Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed ...
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.
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 ...
Lebanese Hezbollah, or the "Party of God," emerged from an Iranian initiative to unite various militant Shi’a groups in Lebanon during a period of domestic and regional instability, particularly the country's civil war Hezbollah's forces were trained and organized by a contingent of 1,500 Revolutionary Guards from Iran, with permission from ...