Bandar Abbas, which the US has targeted multiple times, occupies a strategically sensitive position in Strait of Hormuz.

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old. The two-day ...

Yasser Abbas has now won a seat in Fatah’s Central Committee. The political succession of Mahmoud Abbas’s son is officially underway. After nearly 20 years without national elections, Palestinians are ...

An increasingly intense struggle to succeed the aging and ailing Palestinian Authority (PA) President, Mahmoud Abbas, is underway. The use of armed militias may be key to a contender’s success. Armed ...

(JTA) — Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to break Israel’s two-year political ...

Majid Faraj, head of the Palestinian Authority’s General Intelligence Service, is a favored successor to Mahmoud Abbas. Getty Images An increasingly intense struggle to succeed the aging and ailing ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas flew to the Arab Summit in Riyadh today leaving behind angry Palestinian comrades in his wake. Abbas wimped out on them, they say. Before U.S. Secretary of State ...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is getting slammed for an August 24 speech where he reportedly claimed that “European Jews are not Semites” and that Adolf Hitler murdered Jews over ...

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.

(JTA) — Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to break Israel’s two-year political ...