With Christmas over and the winter holidays coming to an end, the next big event on the national calendar is Inauguration Day — the day every four years when the president is sworn in.

One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people. To the contrary, Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937 ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

African academic scholars at home and abroad are playing significant roles in guiding and influencing public policy, ...

The ICJ president is not a Hezbollah favorite, but has secured the backing of more than 70 parliamentarians to be Lebanon's ...

Iran is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, likely since its decadelong war with Iraq or even since the ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say ...

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been ...

General Joseph Aoun was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States, which funds, trains, and arms the ...

Lebanese army commander elected president weeks after a tenuous cease-fire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between ...

As the country endured economic crisis and a devastating war, lawmakers failed 12 times to pick a head of state. They have ...

Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.