Yasser Arafat died before dawn today in a Paris hospital, but the cause of his illness remains a mystery. In the West Bank and Gaza, thousands of Palestinians are expressing their grief in the streets ...

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, Arafat ...

Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday where he struggled to defend the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, as well as the decision by President Barack Obama to ...

Israel and its western allies may call him “terrorist,” or “irrelevant,” but, for his people and millions around the world, Yasser Arafat was a hero, a freedom fighter, a man of principles and, most ...

Yasser Arafat's political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader's remains as part of a long-shot attempt — eight years after his ...

Nasser al-Qudwa's plan hinges on Palestinian Authority reforms and Hamas peacefully transforming into a non-violent political faction. A nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has returned to ...

The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Days after an Al Jazeera investigation found traces of radioactive polonium in the belongings of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, this conspiracy theory has jumped into legitimate, ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is being flown to Cairo today, where a funeral will be held tomorrow. Arafat died early this ...

JERUSALEM -- One of the most popular leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued a prison-cell appeal Tuesday for high-level change in the Palestinian Authority -- the first time Marwan Barghouti has ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -A nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has returned to the West Bank after four years of self-exile, outlining a roadmap to secure peace in Gaza with Hamas ...