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 Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his confidant, Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine ...

The creation of the PLO vice presidency is seen as a key step toward leadership reform and succession planning ...

Qatar's prime minister says there has been "a bit of progress" in efforts to broker a new ceasefire in Gaza between Israel ...

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

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

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

Abbas, 89, has headed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 but he had for years resisted internal refo ...

On the evening of April 26, the Executive Committee of the PLO appointed a deputy to the Chairman of the Palestinian ...

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