Mr Blair, who spoke to Yasser Arafat via telephone in Oman on Wednesday, said: ... The UK prime minister's tour of the Middle East came at a time when the UK has been keen to downplay the prospect of ...

There are still unanswered questions about the death of Arafat, who met former Prime Minister Tony Blair at Downing Street in 2001. Al-Kidwa said: “I’m still convinced my uncle did not die ...

While Arafat was growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, Palestine's Jews and Arabs fought the British and each other for control of the region. Both viewed the barren strip of land on the eastern end ...

What’s more surprising is British Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiating strategy since 2016—which is looking more and more like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s with each ...

British documaker Richard Symon’s planned 12-part series on world leaders kicks off with the long, colourful and controversial Yasser Arafat, whose political and diplomatic achievements are here ...

Last week, at a limousine-clogged U.N. Millennium Summit on Manhattan’s East Side, Bill Clinton pleaded with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to show more bend in ...

Arafat was rescued from irrelevance by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which began the secret negotiations that evolved into the Oslo peace process in 1993.

YEAREND PICTURES 2000 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (C) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David as U.S. President Bill ...