The terror group does not recognize Israel's right to exist. In addition, it does not regard the PLO as the sole legitimate ...

The blasts come at a time when US President Donald Trump has issued repeated warnings, including that a "large armada" was ...

Mahmud Abbas (C) leading prayers next to Hussein al-Sheikh (3rd-L) during an executive committee meeting in Ramallah — Thaer GHANAIM Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appointed a close aide as the ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has quietly established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and may allow him to sideline the Islamist group Hamas in the ...

These are hopeful days for Mahmoud Abbas. Despite his persistent aspirations to be a global statesman, the ailing octogenarian chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has long played a marginal ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — 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.

Often, the ideological intransigence of Hamas is blamed for impeding Palestinian unity. But on Sunday it was the moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas who dealt a potentially ...

Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives, says food insecurity persists in the country despite trillions of ...