The State of Palestine was officially declared by the Palestine Liberation Organization in November 1988. This claimed sovereignty over internationally recognized Palestinian territories ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

A Palestinian organization released a map Friday that showed that 44.5% of the West Bank is now under Israeli control. The map, included in a report from the Palestine Liberation Organization’s ...

“May this map serve as a call for every struggle ... from the river to the sea,” it continued, repeating the Palestine Liberation Organization mantra adopted by Hamas that calls for the ...