A key opportunity lies in Mediterranean natural gas deposits, which could provide economic relief and energy security for ...

The candidate previously supported by Hezbollah, Suleiman Frangieh, on Wednesday announced ... but his term was extended twice during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Aoun, who has kept a low ...

Hezbollah had insisted on electing Marada Movement leader Suleiman Frangieh, but dropped that demand recently. In announcing his withdrawal from the race, Frangieh endorsed Lebanese army commander ...

The leader of Lebanon's Marada Movement, Suleiman Frangieh, announced Wednesday that ... impacted by escalating conflicts with Israel. Tensions peaked when clashes between Lebanon’s Hezbollah ...

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza with ceasefire talks resuming in Qatar ...

Aoun ran against Hezbollah candidate Suleiman Frangieh, who eventually withdrew to support Aoun. He was eventually elected in a second round of polls when no candidate achieved the required ...

Israel was swift to congratulate Beirut on ... Hezbollah had previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian party in northern Lebanon with close ties ...

Lebanon's parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by ... insistence on Suleiman Frangieh, their ...

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The session was the legislature’s ...

Hezbollah — which has been weakened politically and militarily by the war with Israel — previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian party in ...