Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after meeting United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a new push for Middle East peace, said on Thursday that talks on a unity…

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas denied responsibility on Wednesday for a massive Israeli raid on Jericho jail, dismissing British and United States claims he had been warned…

Even as a crane hoisted away the heavy concrete slabs around the Israeli army’s checkpoint into Jericho this week, soldiers were still waving down drivers for inspection. By the…

Israeli troops pulled away from the West Bank town of Jericho on Wednesday, furling their national flag and dismantling a roadblock, but the formal handover to Palestinian…

Talks on Israel ceding control of West Bank towns to the Palestinian Authority stalled over technicalities on Wednesday, while Israel voiced caution after a top Palestinian…

Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority went on the counteroffensive, announcing a timetable for elections and reforms and urging US President George Bush to demonstrate ”action…