International pressure for recognition of the Palestinian state is growing – but with Gaza in ruins, is a two-state solution ...

What followed was the Second Intifada, thousands of deaths, collapse of peace efforts, and the rise of Hamas. The world moved ...

As soon as he died, the most murderous terrorist wing of his Fatah movement, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, changed its name to the Yasser Arafat Martyrs Brigades. They understood their master.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday he was willing to implement an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, a move that could pave the way toward a U.S.-brokered truce Palestinians ...

Nov. 6, 2013 -- A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium, the TV channel Al Jazeera reported today.

Twelve years after Yasser Arafat died under mysterious circumstances, a museum in his honor —complete with a gift shop hawking replicas of his signature keffiyeh — opened Thursday in the West ...

Yasser Arafat led a violent armed struggle against a powerful enemy for nearly 50 years before signing a peace treaty with Israel, then used a mixture of terrorism and diplomacy to forge the ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Tens of thousands of Palestinians converged on Yasser Arafat 's gravesite Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of their leaders' death in a rally that also ...

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.

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 ...