Joseph Aoun, the former Lebanese army commander, is country’s 14th president after a two-year vacancy. Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun is the new president of Lebanon.

BEIRUT — 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.

( MENAFN - IANS) Damascus, Jan 11 (IANS) Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus on Saturday for talks with Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, marking the first visit by a sitting Lebanese premier to Syria in over a decade, Syrian Al-Watan online newspaper reported.

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate ... Hezbollah following its war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Assad, in Syria, along with international pressure to elect a president paved the way ...

The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second round of voting. Aoun received 99 votes in a second vote from the 128-member parliament.

After more than two years of presidential deadlock, Joseph Aoun has been elected the 14th President of Lebanon.

Beirut- After more than two years of presidential impasse following the end of former President Michel Aoun's term, the Lebanese Parliament elected

The election of army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun garnered rare consensus among the Lebanese, backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia in the first presidential election for Lebanon following the fall of the Assad regime.

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and pledged to rebuild the state, adopt a policy of "positive neutrality" and fight corruption.

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 ...

Lebanese lawmakers ended a two-year presidential deadlock by electing General Joseph Aoun, the respected army commander, as the nation’s 14th president amid mounting economic and political challenges.