With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.

He championed human rights in Argentina, preserved Alaska’s wilderness and set the table for peace.

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

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

Mr. Carter invited Mr. Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to a summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, and offered to serve as a mediator. It was not Mr. Carter’s first foray into Egyptian-Israeli diplomacy and it would not be his last.

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 President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

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.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday. Here are several key events from the Georgia Democrat's time in office from 1977 to 1981. CAMP

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because they had so much to gab about.