Israeli soldiers raided two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, seizing transmitters the military said were interfering with air traffic communications.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited one of the (...)
US envoy George Mitchell Thursday stepped up the pace of efforts to save Middle East peace talks launched four weeks ago, saying he was seeking common ground to avert their collapse.
Former Senator Mitchell was speaking after meeting with (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will tell the Arab League on Thursday indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face peace negotiations, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
“Abbas will tell them that, until (...)
The Palestinian president's Fatah party said Thursday there should be no move to face-to-face Middle East peace talks sought by the United States without progress in the indirect talks it is mediating.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, due to (...)
Palestinians told US Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday that Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers challenged Washington's efforts to get indirect peace talks underway.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli cabinet minister apologized for (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will resist renewed US pressure to resume peace talks unless Israel first fully halts settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
Abbas's remarks to Egypt's Voice of the Arabs radio appeared to pour (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.
Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadership (...)
World powers should isolate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he unveiled tough terms for a Middle East peace accord, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday.
In a major policy speech on Sunday, Netanyahu (...)
President Mahmoud Abbas and his government are rewriting economic, social and security laws for the Palestinian territories with little public oversight, Palestinian and Western officials say.
Reuters has obtained hundreds of Abbas decrees and a (...)
Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance.
Around 10,000 people joined the (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Abbas's office said on Tuesday.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, Abbas's spokesman, told the (...)