Think Abbas, who has been running the P.A. as an autocrat, intends to share power with his newly elected vice president, Hussein al-Sheikh? Think again.The post Palestinian leaders play musical ...

Hussein Al-Sheikh is no moderate and shows how the PA is far from any sort of either substantive or structural ...

Fatah veteran who spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails in 1970s and 1980s is seen as a successor to Mahmoud Abbas.

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 ...

For many ordinary Palestinians, the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh was emblematic of how out-of-touch the leadership of the ...

The appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization does not guarantee he will be ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday named a veteran aide and confidant as his new vice president. It’s a major ...

Sheikh, a longtime aide, as vice president of the PLO, setting the stage for potential succession. Amid ongoing tensions with ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has named a veteran aide as his new vice president. The move is seen as an important step ...