Suha Arafat tells ABC News her husband was murdered. BEIRUT, Lebanon— -- In the wake of an independent Swiss report that found Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had "unexpected high activity ...

In 1974, Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), declared before the United Nations that he came "bearing an olive branch and a… ...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s… ...

Yasser Arafat Possibly Poisoned, Forensics Report Suggests Swiss scientists issued the 108-page report after testing the former Palestinian leader's remains.

Yasser Arafat, who died yesterday aged 75, was the unchallenged leader of the Palestinian people and their movement for statehood over more than 30 years. 12 November 2004 • 12:01am His ...

When Arafat’s daughter was born in 1995, that opened the door to new levels of intrigue. By then, the Israelis and Palestinians were trying to make peace—and make money in the process.

Arafat was born Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 24, 1929. As a young boy, he lived with relatives in Palestine, a region then under British rule.

But Arafat's personal effects, particularly those with bodily fluids on them, registered much higher levels of the element. His toothbrushes had polonium levels of 54mBq; the urine stain on his ...

Yasser Arafat, guerrilla chieftain turned statesman who juggled armed resistance and political diplomacy, yet failed to achieve his lifelong dream of creating a Palestinian state, died today. He ...