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.

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.

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

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

One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

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.

Jimmy Carter was a presidential paradox – a son of the Deep ... days in September 1978 with the mutually distrustful Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Carter crafted more than 20 successive draft agreements seeking common ground.

President Jimmy Carter's crowning foreign policy achievement, the Camp David Accords of 1978, was the first peace agreement brokered in the Middle East since Israel became a nation in 1948.

A farmer turned Nobel Prize winner, the former president excelled in negotiating among seemingly intractable groups.

It's hard to find anyone to say anything negative about Jimmy Carter as a man and members of the KIRO Newsradio team are no exception.