Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step by ...

An organiser of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called Hamas “sons of dogs,” demanding the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza and the disarmament of the militant group.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed that ancient temples tying the Jewish people to Jerusalem are actually in Yemen and not Israel, during a Wednesday PLO central council meeting ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely successor on Saturday, the Palestine Liberation Organisation said, a step widely seen as needed ...

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), under pressure to appoint a second-in-command to its ageing leader, Mahmoud Abbas, created a vice president position after meeting with senior ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major step by the aging leader to designate a successor.

“Sons of Dogs,” is what the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, called Hamas today in a meeting of his politburo. In a raised voice, the 89-year-old, who is nearing his 20th year of a ...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas appointed a close aide as the first ever vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday, positioning him as a potential successor to ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas just did something very unusual for an Arab leader: He took a risk with bold statements and moral clarity. “Sons of dogs, hand over the hostages ...