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 ...

The walls are closing in on Yasser Arafat. Stuck for more than two years in a few small rooms in his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah, he is accused of being increasingly out of touch with his own ...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's rule has been a disaster for Palestinians, for Israel, and for U.S. policy in the Middle East. The wily terrorist leader, now believed to be on his deathbed in a ...

Suha Arafat tells ABC News her husband was murdered. Suha Arafat poses in front of a portrait of her late husband Yasser Arafat at her home in Malta, Nov. 10, 2011. Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images ...

Yasir Arafat amassed billions to buy loyalty. An aide shadowed him everywhere with a bag of cash--as much as $2 million, according to a Palestinian diplomat. Another, Mohammed Rashid, an Iraqi Kurd, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among revolutionaries, Yasser Arafat was a quintessential success story. He led a murderous armed struggle against a powerful enemy for nearly 50 years before signing a peace treaty with Israel ...

The election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in February prompted much hysteria in the Arab world -- and hand-wringing in Washington -- over Sharon's "commitment" to the "peace process." Ever ...

JERUSALEM – Yasser Arafat has secretly amassed at least $1.3 billion in “personal assets,” Israel’s chief of military intelligence said yesterday. Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi’s comments were based on ...