Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, ...

Abbas reiterated Ramallah’s condemnation of the recent Iranian attacks on neighboring Arab countries while also calling out Israel’s strikes in Lebanon, the readout says. Abbas also thanked bin Salman ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, reiterating calls to put a permanent end to the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza, saying Israel has been ...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is slated to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday by video after the U.S. revoked his visa last month. The U.N. last week voted in ...

The program, which is sponsored by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO Department of Refugee Affairs, quizzes people on the street during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Correct answers are ...

The decision by the United States to refuse to issue visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of other PA officials, in order to prevent them from attending the UN General ...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Israel does not miss any opportunity to attempt to create a reality in the occupied Palestinian ...

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt(AP) — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh to attend key summit co-chaired by the US and Egypt (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert had a typo in the ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. His family left the British Mandate area Safed, Palestine, to live in Syria as refugees in 1948. Abbas laid floor tiles and ...

Delegates at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) stormed out Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage and prepared to speak. The mass exit came after delegates spent ...

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas met on Thursday with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal and Hamas deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar, both of whom made the trip from Gaza. PLO general ...