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. The appointment of Hussein ...

President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed Hussein al-Sheikh as the first-ever vice president of the State of Palestine, a move ...

"The idea of a truce or its duration is not rejected by us, and we are ready to discuss it within the framework of ...

“We’ve been missing a real state for 50 years,” Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, a harsh critic of Hezbollah, said Saturday, calling for the state to have monopoly on arms and to be the sole ...

Fatah veteran who spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails in 1970s and 1980s is seen as a successor to Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appointed a close aide as the first ever vice president of the Palestine Liberation ...

The PLO Executive Committee announced in a statement that it will convene again next Saturday to select a new ...

Mahmoud Abbas' move to create a vice chairman position within the PLO may signal potential plans for succession, but the ...

The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is ...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday appointed longtime aide Hussein al-Sheikh as the first-ever vice president of ...

Sheikh, a longtime confidant, as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), positioning him as a likely ...