Among the few authorized uses of polonium 210 is an industrial application: removing static. A tiny amount of the radioactive compound is seated in a device attached to steel machinery spinning ...

Ray Suarez discusses the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters with New York Times correspondent Serge Schmemann in Jerusalem. Nothing has really changed at the siege site. The Israeli ...

The Yasser Arafat International Airport operated in Gaza for less than two years. By 2002, the airport was in ruins. Israel bombed the site's control tower, runway, and terminal. Today, crumbling ...

Yasser Arafat died before dawn today in a Paris hospital, but the cause of his illness remains a mystery. In the West Bank and Gaza, thousands of Palestinians are expressing their grief in the streets ...

Arafat's widow, Suha, wearing black coat and pants, stifled sobs as the Palestinian flag-draped coffin of her 75-year-old husband was carried off a military helicopter to an official French aircraft.

Nothing in the appearance of the four-story building with a Hyundai dealership downstairs suggests that it is particularly special in the commercial section of Lausanne, Switzerland. But on its secure ...

Pictures of Andrew Cuomo schmoozing with then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in 2000 are back in the spotlight now that the ex-governor is making a comeback bid for mayor.

The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. 1950s – After graduating from college, founds a ...

The one time I met Yasser Arafat was in the spring of 1983, when I was in Amman, Jordan, editing for the Wall Street Journal a series of articles that the intrepid Karen Elliott House was writing on ...

The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal ...

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 ...