The Lebanese army on Saturday said it was ready to deploy its forces in the country’s south, accusing Israel of ...

The US believes if the deployment of the Lebanese Army to southern Lebanon continues ... The government listed at the start of the war one of its stated goals to be to return the residents to ...

Army chief Joseph Aoun, who was elected on Thursday ending ... Lina Khatib, of Britain's Chatham House think tank, said it was "the first time since the end of the Lebanese civil war (in 1990) that a ...

RARE POLITICAL STATEMENTS Aoun was born in Sin el-Fil near Beirut and enrolled in the army in 1983 during Lebanon's civil war. His first assignment was as a platoon commander in the army rangers ...

He joined the army as a cadet in 1983, during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war. George Nader, a retired brigadier general who served alongside Aoun, recalled him as keeping cool under fire.

Najib Mikati’s visit, the first in 15 years, comes amid pressure in Lebanon to release Islamists imprisoned during the civil ...

Aoun has vowed to “remove the Israeli occupation” in southern Lebanon and reconstruct “what the Israeli army destroyed” in its war with Hezbollah terrorists. ZUMAPRESS.com Aoun “has ...

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

The Lebanese army on Saturday said it was ready to deploy its forces in the country's south, accusing Israel of ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - 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 ...