Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn’s past columns can now be found at The I. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso).

Plane Bombing Proves Russian Airstrikes are Hurting ISIS

The Paralyzed Mind of Tony Blair

Why Donald Trump is (Mostly) Right About the Middle East

Why We Should Welcome Russia’s Entry Into Syrian War

Only Iraq’s Clerics Can Defeat ISIS

The Coming Dissolution of the United Kingdom

Is ISIS Really on the Run?

Saudi Airstrikes in Yemen Fuel the Fire in the Gulf

How Tony Blair Helped Open the Door for ISIS

Is the Defeat of ISIS in Iraq Inevitable?

The One-Day Siege: ISIS’s Conquest of Hit

Hamza’s Story: a Jihadi Who Left ISIS

Life Under ISIS

The Looming Battle for Mosul

Private donors from Gulf Oil States Helping to Bankroll Salaries of Up to 100,000 ISIS Fighters

Fight to the Death for Mosul

The Little Lies That Sink News Stars

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Assad’s Weak Hand

From Syria to Paris

The West is Wrong Again in its Fight Against Terror

The Motive to Torture

The West Needs More Than a White Knight to Defeat ISIS

Iraq’s Ghost Army

Has the End Finally Come for Iraq’s Christians?

An Interview With Kurdish Guerrilla Leader Cemil Bayik

ISIS in Iraq

Libya Falls Into the Abyss

A Civil War Without End

The West Remains Blind to the Sunni-Shia Battle

Iraq’s Descent into Chaos

US Middle East Strategy in Tatters

The Siege of Kobani

ISIS on the Verge of Victory at Kobani

On Talking to Terrorists

Airstriking ISIS

ISIS at the Gates of Baghdad

Does David Cameron Have Any Idea What Kind of War He’s Getting Into?

Why Bombing ISIS will Fail

Is Turkey Colluding with ISIS?

The Absurdity of US Policy in Syria

Fear of ISIS

Saudi Arabia, 9/11 and the Rise of ISIS

Why US Middle East Policy is Fraught with Danger

ISIS Raises the Stakes

Closing the Jihadist Highway

Why Washington’s War on Terror Failed

Fear of ISIS

The End of Iraq

How the Invasion of Gaza Strengthens Hamas