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 ...

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.

Before the death of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on November 11th, 2004, there had been an enormous amount of speculation raised, and analysis offered, concerning the issue of ...

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 ...

What is Hamas, and how does it operate? Hamas is the religious-political-military organization at the center of the current showdown between Israel and Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority (PA).

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 ...

JERUSALEM - In his four decades as Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat has run a murky financial empire that includes far-flung PLO investments in airlines, banana plantations and high-tech companies, ...

Palestinians in Ramallah, West Bank, on May 14 hold banners and march to commemorate what they call the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images) The ...