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 ...

Palestinians say an al Jazeera film released last week confirmed suspicions. ANTAKYA, Turkey, July 12, 2012 — -- Israel was accused Tuesday of being behind the killing of iconic Palestinian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al-Jazeera is getting attention for its reports that traces of polonium-210 have been found on items, including clothing, belonging to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The story has led to ...

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 ...

:: Mount Arafat is where the Prophet Mohammad is believed to have delivered his final sermon 14 centuries ago Worshipers could be seen walking along the streets of Arafat, near Mecca, heading towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...