Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

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

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...

Lebanon’s parliament was due to meet on Thursday to make yet another effort to elect a president, filling a vacuum that has ...

Syria's new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country's armed forces as Damascus tries to shape a patchwork of rebel groups into a ...

The sound of gunfire, barrel bombs, and stray bullets is nothing new in Sudan. What’s new is that the violence has moved from the outskirts to the capital, Khartoum. This shift forced the government ...

That’s all gone now [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera] Maysoun al-Faouri, 47, was not expecting to be uprooted from her home when Israeli forces advanced into her village. During Syria’s 13-year ...

It took six months to elect Michel Suleiman president and that was only after Hezbollah and its allies turned their weapons against the Lebanese people in May 2008. The Doha conference was held to ...