RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The return of former security chief Mohammed Dahlan from exile to the inner circle of Palestinian political power could signal a new dynamic in the long-moribund peace process.

BERLIN, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- In the first elections in 20 years, young leaders gained influential posts in Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- When Fatah, the Palestinian political movement, last held a party congress it was 1989, in Tunisia, and Yasser Arafat was the chairman. Arafat died in a French hospital in 2004, but his presence looms over the Fatah congress currently being held in Bethlehem.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The Fatah General Assembly blamed Israel for the death of Yasser Arafat and called for a probe of the demise of the former Palestinian Authority chairman.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Jibril Rajoub, a senior Fatah official and former West Bank security chief, said the movement has not abandoned the option of an armed struggle against Israel.

JERUSALEM, July 29 (UPI) -- Fuad Shubaki, a former financial adviser to Yasser Arafat, was convicted on multiple charges of arms smuggling by an Israeli military court, the army said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. representatives for the Kurdish government Monday offered a rebuttal to comparisons between the president of Iraqi Kurdistan and Yasser Arafat.

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Iran’s president renews his death threats against Israel -- but finds himself in hot water at home. His would-be successor speaks softly, but can he change the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions? The Israelis don’t think so.

CANTON, Mass., May 28 (UPI) -- Dunkin' Donuts, based in Canton, Mass., has pulled an advertisement after a scarf worn by pitch woman Rachael Ray was compared to a Muslim headscarf.