MUKATA, Ramallah – Yasser Arafat died this morning in Paris. He is survived by his wife, Suha, and 9-year-old daughter, Zahwa. The Palestinian Authority yesterday moved closer to ending four decades ...

Decades after Arafat was pushed out of Beirut, Hamas's leaders may also choose exile over death; despite key differences, ...

For virtually his entire adult life, Yasser Arafat had one dream, and he pursued it with such energy and zeal -- some would say fanaticism -- that he came to personify the dream itself. The dream was ...

n response to three Palestinian suicide attacks that killed twenty-five Israelis over the weekend, Israel has launched military strikes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and has fired missiles into ...

The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. 1950s – After graduating from college, founds a ...

ARAFAT’S WAR against Israel has shattered nearly as many old certainties as lives. One of the most seemingly solid of the certainties was that no one could attack Israel’s capital and live to tell the ...

Pictures of Andrew Cuomo schmoozing with then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in 2000 are back in the spotlight now that the ex-governor is making a comeback bid for mayor.

TIME.com: The Palestinian Authority’s minister for Jerusalem affairs, Faisal Husseini, was buried Friday in the Holy City after dying of a heart attack. What was his legacy, and how will his death ...