PARIS, Nov. 5 -- Palestinian officials acknowledged Friday that Yasser Arafat was in a coma and struggling to survive, while Israeli officials issued blunt warnings that they would not allow the ...

When and where hasn’t Mr. Arafat habitually lied about himself and the Palestinian movement he helped found, starting with the moment of his birth? He lied about this being in Palestine, his real ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 8 -- An old feud between the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his senior advisers erupted into an extraordinary public brawl Monday after Suha Arafat accused ...

Not all of Arafat’s family agreed to the exhumation. Arafat’s widow watched on television from her house in Malta. “This will bring closure, we will know the truth about why he died.

Suha Arafat, who was stripped of her Tunisian citizenship in 2007 following a dispute with the former ruling family and currently lives in Malta, vehemently denied any corruption allegations and ...

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 ...

The Palestinians know this, the Arabs know this, Arafat's family knows this. But it's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel," said Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.

On Sept. 11, 2001, American TV viewers saw scenes of cheering Palestinians, jubilant to see Israel's ally attacked. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had his security services quash the scattered ...

Yasser Arafat's nephew Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian representative at the United Nations, was dispatched by the family to Paris to pick up a copy of the medical records. Al-Kidwa was in Cairo ...