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 ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Yasser Arafat, who forced the plight of Palestinians into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died today at age 75. The French ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Ray Suarez discusses the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters with New York Times correspondent Serge Schmemann in Jerusalem. Nothing has really changed at the siege site. The Israeli ...

Arafat's widow, Suha, wearing black coat and pants, stifled sobs as the Palestinian flag-draped coffin of her 75-year-old husband was carried off a military helicopter to an official French aircraft.

The Yasser Arafat International Airport operated in Gaza for less than two years. By 2002, the airport was in ruins. Israel bombed the site's control tower, runway, and terminal. Today, crumbling ...

The one time I met Yasser Arafat was in the spring of 1983, when I was in Amman, Jordan, editing for the Wall Street Journal a series of articles that the intrepid Karen Elliott House was writing on ...