No one expects dramatic results from a meeting at the White House on Wednesday between President Trump and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. But the fact that the meeting is ...

For many ordinary Palestinians, the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh was emblematic of how out-of-touch the leadership of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority has become. By Adam Rasgon and Aaron ...

AL-BIREH, West Bank — Mahmoud Abbas may be the last Palestinian leader who believes in a two-state solution and opposes ...

Nobody doubts that President Barack Obama has a lot on his plate, what with two wars, a credit crisis, a failing health-care system, a collapsing auto industry and much more demanding his attention.

When Abbas burst into Kollywood, singing and grooving to the iconic friendship anthem, Mustafa Mustafa, in the cult romantic classic Kadhal Desam (1996), the ’9 ...

JERUSALEM—Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, once again delivered a stridently anti-Israel speech at the U.N. on Thursday, where he also praised the anti-Israel protests across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, ...

Donald Trump met Mahmoud Abbas, in Bethlehem today, a twofer for a President intent, as the national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster, put it last week, on visiting “homelands and holy sites” and ...