A new forensics report says Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium. Nov. 6, 2013 -- A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with ...

Nov. 11, 2004 — -- Yasser Arafat, the only leader most Palestinians have ever known, fought for decades for statehood but was later seen by many as an obstacle to his people's dreams. The ...

Yasser Arafat’s medical records do not give conclusive results regarding what caused his death, The New York Times and Haaretz newspapers reported Thursday, prompting Palestinian officials to call for ...

On Friday, when thousands of Palestinians accompanied the coffin of Yasser Arafat to his final burial site in Ramallah on the West Bank, it was a tribute to his enormous popularity among his own ...

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 ...

Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. It is considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but I will make an exception for Yasser Arafat, the pathetic embodiment of all that ...

Claims that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with a radioactive substance before his death in 2004 are now literally being put to the test. Arafat's grave was briefly opened today ...

For an hour each afternoon, Yasser Arafat, wearing his checkered kaffiyeh and olive fatigues, paces back and forth the 15 yards from one end of his spartan office to the other. It’s a longtime regular ...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) dug up the body of its late President Yasser Arafat on Tuesday as part of an international investigation into whether he was poisoned. The investigation was launched ...

The Oslo Accords taught Israel a painful lesson: peace is not secured through documents alone. It is measured through sincerity, education, and genuine shifts in worldview. Turkey and Qatar were ...

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 ...

Palestinian leaders were locked in a power struggle Sunday triggered by Yasser Arafat's attempt to hand over control of security forces to a loyalist in apparent hope of sidelining the U.S.-backed ...