Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected as head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, following an internal election by party members in the besieged Gaza Strip. “Brother Ismail Haniyeh was re-elected as the head of the movement’s political office for a second time,” an unnamed Palestinian official told Reuters on Sunday. ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tasked Prime Minister Hussein Arnous with forming a new government, more than two months after a presidential election, which the 55-year-old leader won with 95.1% of the votes. Assad asked former water resources minister in a presidential decree to move quickly and form a new ...
