The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger ...

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule ...

Lebanese security forces guard the parliament in Beirut. Most of the country’s leaders and legislators have seemed focused on advancing their own narrow interests ...

Joseph Aoun as the country's next president ... a better future for Lebanon and its people and to good neighborly relations," he said. In a speech after his election, Aoun said Lebanon under ...

Lebanon's new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that he was reaching out to all political persuasions to help "rescue" his crisis-hit country ahead of talks aimed at forming a government.

Lebanon has a unique power-sharing system to secure representation of the country's different communities. Under this system, the president, who is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces ...

The election of Joseph Aoun to the presidency of Lebanon has profound implications for the country, both domestically and ...