The battle for Palestinian statehood consumed Yasser Arafat’s life and a new museum in his name puts the nature of that fight front and center – the sub-machine gun on his desk, the AK-47 ...

Yasser Arafat, the longtime leader of the Palestinian nationalism movement, died almost a decade ago, in late 2004. There is still no independent country for Palestinians, but Arafat's symbolism ...

In the eight years since Yasser Arafat died in Paris, controversy around the cause of his death has never quite gone away, and now that his body is being exhumed in order to quell that controversy ...

Nov. 11, 2004 — -- Yasser Arafat, the only leader most Palestinians have ever known, ... Arafat was a key -- and controversial -- player on the world stage.

Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic tests concluded on Tuesday, countering the theory put forward by a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader.

But it’s Arafat – the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner, smiling benignly with his hands clasped behind his back – who on Thursday sparked protests outside Madame Tussaud’s New York, and extra ...

Yasser Araftat: Behind the myth He is one of the world's most controversial - and recognisable - political figures. Now that the career he choreographed so carefully may be about to end, Phil ...

Other controversial winners include an award given in 1994 to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for their work on the ...