Three quarters of UN members recognise a state of Palestine, with major power France set to join them in September following ...

Paris: Three quarters of UN members recognise a state of Palestine, with major power France set to join them in September ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, I was at Camp David as US president Bill Clinton’s lead Middle East negotiator. We sought to resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and to produce ...

In 1974, Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), declared before the United Nations that he came "bearing an olive branch and a… ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the late Yasser Arafat, who was president of the Palestinian Authority.

Arafat: I am repeating some of holy Muslim words, not mine. Wallace: On your state-controlled television, a cleric – here's what he said.

Indeed, Arafat’s life and death are as fraught with treachery as any season of The Sopranos or Game of Thrones.If he was poisoned, the list of suspects is so long, including not only his Israeli ...

Although Arafat has had a propensity to re-create his life story whenever convenient, the basics of his youth are well known. His parents had recently moved to Cairo from Palestine when he was born in ...

When he fell ill, Arafat was flown to France, where he died in a military hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, of causes that remain unknown, something not entirely unusual for a man of 75.

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 ...

Arafat's widow, Suha Arafat, says the results from the Swiss lab tests show her husband was the victim of a political assassination. "I don't know who did it, but it's terrible," she said.