Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, joined “Meet the Press” on December 10, 1989 to discuss the possibility of negotiations between Israel and Palestinians in Cairo. In ...

Creating a Palestinian state has been a dream of Yasser Arafat's since he was a Palestinian nationalist in Egypt smuggling guns from Egypt into Palestine. That dream sustained him during his years as ...

One mystery of Yasser Arafat’s life seemed unsolved at the time of his death: How much money did he have, and where is it? In the mid-1990s, Arafat controlled a financial empire worth at least $3 ...

Israeli and U.S. officials are skeptical after Yasser Arafat cast himself this week in the role of peacemaker. After more than a year of bloodshed, the officials are well aware that the Palestinian ...

The following is a timeline of the life of Yasser Arafat: 1929 — Arafat is born to a family of merchants in Egypt (though he often claimed to have been born in Jerusalem); 1952-1956 — Attends Cairo ...

Jim Lehrer discusses the personal animosity between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon with journalists who have written extensively on the two men. Now the Middle East. It has come down to a violent ...

DUBAI, (Reuters) - Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into ...