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 two-day ...
AL-BIREH, West Bank — Mahmoud Abbas may be the last Palestinian leader who believes in a two-state solution and opposes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
While Israeli hostages are being brutalized and starved by Hamas and Palestinian terrorists in tunnels deep in the Gaza Strip, Australian Prime Minister Anthony ...