Here is a look at the life of Khaled Meshaal, former political leader of Hamas. Personal Birth date: 1956 Birth place: Silwad, West Bank Birth name: Khaled Meshaal Father: Imam, name unavailable ...

Hamas Monday announced plans to turn the Gaza City home of its late founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, into a museum. A previously unknown group took Friday claimed responsibility for the gory violence in ...

Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher, founded the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1987 and presided over its rise to a violent, radical alternative to Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.

The assassination of the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin created a rather expected atmosphere of anti-Israeli and anti-American hatred in the Arab world. The interpretations for this act of the ...

As a journalist, I met Sheik Ahmed Yassin twice during my visits to the Gaza Strip. The first time was when I attended a military court hearing in 1984, when Yassin was sentenced to 13 years in prison ...

2004-04-18 04:00:00 PDT Jerusalem-- Sixteen years ago, as the Palestinians' first intifada was blazing its way through the tumbledown refugee camps of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian pediatrician named ...

Word of Israel's assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin flashed around the world on 22 March. Observers wondered how the killing would affect the militant Palestinian group. As ...

The March 22 targeted assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was designed by the Israelis to strike a major blow to Hamas. Many nations condemned the attack, however, and critics further claimed that ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban an Islamist group named after the late Sheikh Yassin as part of a crackdown on militants following the murder of a French schoolteacher last week, government ...

PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - France will ban an Islamist group named after the late Sheikh Yassin as part of a crackdown on militants following the murder of a French schoolteacher last week, government ...