With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.

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.

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.

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

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 President Jimmy 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 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

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 on Sunday. Here are several key events from the Georgia Democrat's time in office from 1977 to 1981. CAMP DAVID ACCORDS The Camp David Accords were a series of agreements signed in 1978 between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

A generous description of former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy track record during his four tumultuous years in the White House would be one defined by peaks and valleys. Many see Carter's role in brokering the Camp David Accords,

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