Gen Aoun is the first Lebanese president not chosen by Hezbollah in at least 27 years, since the election in 1998 of Emile Lahoud. In 2017, tensions between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon rose when former ...

Aoun wouldn’t be the first army chief to become president. Emile Lahoud (president from 1998 to 2007), Michel Sleiman (2008 to 2014), and Michel Aoun (2016 to 2022) were also chiefs before ...

CHESTER, Pa. – Before stepping onto the field last Saturday, Philadelphia Union midfielder Michael Lahoud looked down at the FIFA emblem and World Cup qualifying patch on his Sierra Leone jersey ...