Yasser Arafat

Abbas needs an heir apparent

2013-02-28 00:00:00

President Obama's visit to the Middle East next month is widely billed as an earnest attempt to double down on diplomacy and revive the moribund peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against the...

Said Musa Maragha dies at 86; Arafat ally became an enemy

2013-01-29 19:09:00

Said Musa Maragha, a Palestinian military commander who rose through the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization to become a trusted lieutenant of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, then broke away to lead Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels who besieged...

Israel admits responsibility for 1988 assassination

2012-11-01 09:52:28

Arafat poisoned? Death inquiry opened in France

2012-08-28 12:43:43

Madeleine Albright's brooches tell a story at Bowers Museum

2012-10-15 10:38:00

It's hard to fathom that Saddam Hussein inspired a fashion trend. But he did for Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of State under President Clinton. It was after the first Gulf War, after she criticized Hussein...

Arafat's widow files lawsuit to press for probe into his death

2012-07-31 11:52:58

WEST BANK: 18 years after Oslo, Palestinians try a new tack

2011-09-13 16:32:31

Palestinian Authority premier Salam Fayyad gives up finance post

2012-05-16 16:38:43

Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers in Nakba Day protests

2012-05-15 16:38:45

Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer

2012-04-09 00:00:00

As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program. Beginning in 1968, as one of...

Israel's Shimon Peres reflects on Hollywood's global influence

2012-03-09 16:37:52

The danger of politicizing textbooks

2011-10-25 16:35:18

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shares a laugh with Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2004.

2013-06-16 21:54:00

Palestinian security officers in Jenin, West Bank, make their way down a building adorned with a banner bearing images of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, left, and his late predecessor, Yasser Arafat.

2012-11-28 00:00:00

Bee: "I'd wear this bee when I felt like I should float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, like Muhammad Ali," Albright said.

2012-10-12 00:00:00