Arafat famously backed the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. In 1990, he backed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, one of the only leaders in the world to do so.

Arafat's body was uncovered in its grave and samples were removed without having to lift the corpse from the ground. As a result, a planned reburial ceremony with full military honors was called off.

On the streets of Cairo, in the camps of Lebanon and at the White House, there was a sense that however his life was judged, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death was a solemn and historic ...

Yasser Arafat led a violent armed struggle against a powerful enemy for nearly 50 years before signing a peace treaty with Israel, then used a mixture of terrorism and diplomacy to forge the ...

RAMALLAH -- The body of the late 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 ...