Sharon died Saturday, eight years after a debilitating stroke put him into a coma. He was 85.

Sharon%27s excesses increased Israel%27s vulnerability. Even in the best light, Ariel Sharon was a brute of a man. Bull-headed and brilliant, the former Israeli prime minister, ...

Ariel Sharon, the daring Israeli general who as a field commander and prime minister became one of the most influential and controversial leaders in the Middle East, died Saturday. He was 85.

JERUSALEM (AP) – It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that ...

Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a devastating stroke in 2006 at the height of his political power, died Saturday after spending eight years in a coma. NPR's Scott Simon ...

Israel says the body of former prime minister Ariel Sharon will lie in state for several hours Sunday in Jerusalem's Knesset (parliament) where mourners can pay their respects. Mr. Sharon died ...

As the rocket fire intensified, Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister at the time, faced mounting pressure from his right-wing base to respond decisively.

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Five years later, Sharon, who died Saturday at 85, was again barreling headlong into controversy, bulldozing ahead with his plan to pull Israel out of the Gaza Strip and uproot all 8,500 Jewish ...

Five years later, Sharon was again barreling headlong into controversy, bulldozing ahead with his plan to pull Israel out of the Gaza Strip and uproot all 8,500 Jewish settlers living there ...