The current chairman of the PLO Executive Committee is PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and the new position will indicate a possible successor. Yoni Ben-Menachema, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem ...

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia University graduate detained by US immigration authorities over the weekend, worked for the British government on its "flagship soft power policy" for ...

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Beijing today on a four-day official visit to China. According to Palestinian media, Abbas will meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang besides ...

A federal judge did not issue any major decisions during the first court hearing Wednesday in the government’s case against activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, leaving the pro ...

Students gathered in New York City's Washington Square Tuesday to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was detained by U.S. Immigration and ...

Mahmoud Khalil's wife and attorney both released statements on Tuesday. One day ahead of a court hearing for Mahmoud Khalil -- the Palestinian activist who was arrested by Immigration and Customs ...

Columbia University did not immediately return a request for comment. Leavitt accused Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian student activist arrested by federal agents officers last week ...

Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal ...

About a dozen people were cuffed as they clashed with NYPD officers during a demonstration in support of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the removal of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from the United States. Judge Jesse M Furman ruled on Monday that Mr Khalil, a Columbia ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil — and cautioned that other "terrorist sympathizers ...

On Saturday night, Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and Syrian national, was arrested in New York by federal immigration authorities. He is lawfully in the United States, possessing a ...