Mahmud Abbas's mandate as Palestinian president, disputed by Hamas, could be extended to avoid a constitutional vacuum, a Palestinian official said on Sunday. ...
The Palestinian electoral commission has said the elections called for January should be postponed because the vote can not take place in the ...
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - NOVEMBER 10: In this handout image provided by the Palestinian Press Office, President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Fatah Central Committee on November 10, 2009 in Ramallah, West Bank. Abbas has threatened to resign from Palestine ...
The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza has banned all public commemoration of Yasser Arafat's death this year, officials with the rival secular Fatah group said on Tuesday. Wednesday will mark five years since Arafat, the revered Palestinian leader and founder of Fatah, ...
GAZA (Reuters) - The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers of detaining dozens of its members on Tuesday to stop them marking the 5th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat. Fatah officials said Hamas security ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions. Sounding conciliatory after raising the political ante against Abbas following ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Younger Palestinian leaders were in no rush on Friday to step into the shoes of President Mahmoud Abbas after he said he did not want to run for re-election in January. Making clear Abbas' Fatah movement is, ...
Mahmoud Abbas says he doesn't want another term as Palestinian president Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed Mideast peace prospects into unknown territory Thursday, announcing he doesn't want another term and opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the ...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday he will not seek re-election as he voiced frustration with the US position on Israeli settlements and delivered a major blow to Washington's Middle East peace efforts. "I do not wish to run in the ...
As the rift between the two main Palestinian factions widens, many West Bank youths, for decades the shock troops of their national movement, are growing increasingly disenchanted with their feuding leaders. Membership numbers are hard to come by, but dozens of interviews ...
The Islamist movement Hamas said on Wednesday it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories. The move raised doubts over whether the vote decreed by the Western-backed ...
Hamas said on Wednesday it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza Strip stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories. The move raised doubts about whether the vote decreed by the Western-backed president would ...
