Hamas security forces moved swiftly against their Fatah rivals in the aftermath of a mass Fatah rally that ended with seven people dead, rounding up 400 people in an overnight crackdown, Fatah ...

The Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel—and the subsequent Gaza war—are rarely understood in their primary political context, which is the power struggle among Palestinian factions. The near-universal ...

Yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) leading faction, Fatah, has agreed to a unity pact with its main political rival, Hamas, ...

“Gaza under Hamas and the West Bank under Fatah is, I think, an unstable equilibrium. So I think it is not likely that that is what will emerge over the long term from the current conflict.” “The ...

Fatah, the Palestinian group that administers the Israeli-occupied West Bank, along with a dozen other Palestinian factions, has signed a declaration with its longtime rival Hamas to form an interim ...

Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed to form a joint government following talks in Beijing, it was announced on Tuesday – the latest attempt at resolving a longstanding rivalry and offering a ...

My son-in-law had a pregnant insight about the Palestinian Authority and its capacity to restrain the emotions of the West Bank with regard to the Gaza bloodletting. He assumes, as I do, that there ...

In the early morning hours of August 23, the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) arrested Ahmed Halawa. While in custody, the 50-year-old was viciously beaten to death. The incident caused an ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas kept a strong grip on his Fatah movement in an election in which his loyalists remained dominant in its top decision-making body, final results showed on Sunday.

Splinter group Fatah Al-Islam is at center of uprising in refugee camp. BEIRUT, LEBANON, May 23, 2007 — -- Fatah al-Islam, a radical Sunni Islamist group, has come under the spotlight this week.

After 20 years without internal elections, the Palestinian Fatah movement on Tuesday elected a group of younger leaders to its top council, including one serving time in an Israeli prison. Initial ...