Yasser Arafat (born 1929) was elected chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. Though originally an advocate of all-out guerrilla war, from 1974 on he and the PLO sometimes seemed to be seeking a negotiated resolution of the...

From the beginning, Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have been seen by Palestinians and other Arabs as "freedom fighters" seeking to oust the Israelis from Palestine. At the same time, there has been a more general view...

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني‎) (August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was a Palestinian...

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...

Some key events in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts:_ Oct. 30, 1991: Israel and Arab nations join world powers at Madrid Conference, first time all sit down at same table for peace talks._ Sept. 13, 1993: Israel and Palestinians sign first interim peace accord at White House._...

Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007. There are 346 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Jan. 19, 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Va.On this date:In 1736, James Watt, inventor...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thought Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a weak disappointment, and she once judged President Bush's signature Mideast peace program unworkable, according to a new biography.Months into her term as secretary of state in 2005, Rice considered Abbas "a nice man but...