One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. His death comes more than a year after the former president entered hospice care.

PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to ...

Forging peace between Israel and Egypt required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling and law-obeying from President Carter

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

The former American president was a complex and confounding man, says his biographer, Jonathan Alter, who looks at the extraordinary life and achievements of this misunderstood man and the people who

Former President Jimmy Carter led the US through a tumultuous time of conflict in the Middle East, gas shortages, Cold War drama and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel's most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

The Israeli government’s official reaction to Carter’s death was notable in the narrowness of its scope. The 40-plus years of his post-presidential era went unremarked upon, with the long-ago breakthrough in the mountains of Maryland the primary focus.

Former President Jimmy Carter, best known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his tenure as the 39th president, has died at 100.

Since the news of Jimmy Carter’s death on Dec. 29, local artist and illustrator Nip Rogers has been thinking of the images that defined Carter’s life and presidency. There’s an image of President Carter standing between Egypt’s President Anwar el-Sadat and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the Camp David summit.