The election of General Joseph Aoun as president of Lebanon ended a two-year stalemate in which the position was vacant, and Lebanon basically had ...

Lebanon’s parliament is meeting to elect ... ex-members of former PM Saad Hariri’s Future Movement – Sleiman Frangieh’s Marada Movement, the Kataeb (Phalangist) Party and some reform ...

Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian party in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. However, on Wednesday, Frangieh announced he had withdrawn ...

Hezbollah and its allies have backed former minister Sleiman Frangieh, who is a friend of Assad. But, according to David Wood, Lebanon analyst at the International Crisis Group think tank ...

After Aoun’s term ended in October 2022, Hezbollah backed Frangieh, leader of the Marada Movement, a political party with a strong influence in northern Lebanon. Frangieh also had close ties ...

Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorist group that became a powerful political force in Lebanon, had refused to allow an election unless its preferred candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, was chosen president.