The wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was behind reports of a probe by French prosecutors into alleged transfers totaling millions of dollars to bank ...

Yasser Arafat doesn’t deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special ...

The election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in February prompted much hysteria in the Arab world -- and hand-wringing in Washington -- over Sharon's "commitment" to the "peace process." Ever ...

Among revolutionaries, Yasser Arafat was a quintessential success story. He led a murderous armed struggle against a powerful enemy for nearly 50 years before signing a peace treaty with Israel ...

Secretary of state with the Ministry of Interior (MAI) Raed Arafat on Saturday stated that it's very possible the emergency state declared in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to be prolonged by ...

July 30 (UPI) --Doctor-staffed clinics were put into service on the plains of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia to handle Hajj pilgrims converging there Thursday. The five-day Hajj, the most sacred ...

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. Questions and Answers Question: Hi, Steph. I have two questions, the ...

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To be a child of the Palestinian diaspora, as is the protagonist in Zaina Arafat’s debut novel “You Exist Too Much,” means possessing intimate knowledge of dislocation and alienation. The nameless ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, better known as William the Conqueror, led his invading army to victory over England's King Harold at Hastings. In 1322, ...