Mahmud Abbas

Mahmud Abbas, the president of Palestine, met with Pope Francis on Thursday to address the “serious” humanitarian situation. Francis has recently stepped up his criticism of the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The Vatican tweeted pictures of...

The Islamist movement Hamas will no longer be involved in any future transition after Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas stated Wednesday who would take over in the interim when the position falls vacant. Even though his tenure...

According to a Palestinian envoy, President Mahmud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow the next week to talk about the Gaza conflict. The Palestinian envoy in Moscow was...

According to official media, Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, and China expressed its willingness to assist in facilitating Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Abbas’ fifth official visit to the second-largest economy in the world...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will not hold a planned meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence following Washington’s controversial policy shift on Jerusalem, an Abbas aide said on Saturday. “There will be no meeting with the...