President Mahmoud Abbas surprised the Palestinian people with his announcement of what he called reform measures taken in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah movement. In the PLO ...

Arab leaders met in Cairo March 4, urging Palestinian unity under the PLO. Here’s a look at its history, including factions ...

Late on Monday night, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly declared 2025 “the year of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state”. The comment by Deputy ...

Arafat ultimately became so closely associated with the keffiyeh that, at one point, it was known interchangeably as an “ Arafat scarf. ” Arafat’s political legacy, of course, extends far ...

Six days after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, on February 18, 1979, the PLO chairman Yasser Arafat who was previously detested by the toppled regime of Mohammad Reza Shah, a close ally of the ...