Creating a Palestinian state has been a dream of Yasser Arafat's since he was a Palestinian nationalist in Egypt smuggling guns from Egypt into Palestine. That dream sustained him during his years as ...

The following is a timeline of the life of Yasser Arafat: 1929 — Arafat is born to a family of merchants in Egypt (though he often claimed to have been born in Jerusalem); 1952-1956 — Attends Cairo ...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's rule has been a disaster for Palestinians, for Israel, and for U.S. policy in the Middle East. The wily terrorist leader, now believed to be on his deathbed in a ...

Thousands of Palestinians, many defying military curfews, poured into West Bank and Gaza streets Sunday to protest Israel's assault on Yasser Arafat's headquarters, and four demonstrators were killed ...

Israeli and U.S. officials are skeptical after Yasser Arafat cast himself this week in the role of peacemaker. After more than a year of bloodshed, the officials are well aware that the Palestinian ...

The order came after a night of fighting in which two Palestinians were killed -- one in Hebron and one in Nablus. In his statement Arafat said: "This morning I have reiterated my orders to all my ...

One mystery of Yasser Arafat’s life seemed unsolved at the time of his death: How much money did he have, and where is it? In the mid-1990s, Arafat controlled a financial empire worth at least $3 ...

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 ...

Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the West Bank headquarters where he had been held a virtual prisoner. Looking on were tens of thousands of emotional mourners who had swarmed a Jordanian military ...