Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk writes for the Independent, where this column originally appeared. 

The Barcelona Attack and the Future of Spain and Catalonia

From Dublin to the Somme: How the Death of an Irish Priest Exposes the Tragedy of Brexit

Pig’s Blood Bullets: Trump’s Big Lie About the Philippines

Why Israel and Saudi Arabia are United Against Al Jazeera

“Dunkirk”: a Whitewashed Version of History That Ignores the Bravery of Black and Muslim Soldiers

When Syrian War Ends, Woe to the Kurds

Out of the Ruins of Aleppo: a Syrian Community Begins to Rebuild

Saudi Arabia: the Kingdom Whose Name We Dare Not Speak At All

Torture, Brutality and Police Crime in Erdogan’s Turkey

Culturecide in Mosul: the Destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque

Saudi Arabia Wants to Reduce Qatar to a Vassal State

The US is Now Keener to Strike Assad Than ISIS

Did Trump Denounce Qatar Over Failed Business Deals?

The Tories’ Troubling Alliance With Northern Ireland’s Unionists

The Truth About US Involvement in Syria

What Theresa May Won’t Talk About When She Talks About Terrorism

Abu Zeid, the Man Who Fought Back

We Must Look to the Past, Not ISIS, for the True Nature of Islam

Trump Meets the New Leader of the Secular World, Pope Francis

When Peace is a Commodity: Trump in the Middle East

Hypocrisy and Condescension: Trump’s Speech to the Middle East

The Real Aim of Trump’s Trip to Saudi Arabia

After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin

When the War is Over Can Syria be Repaired?

Donald of Arabia: Trump in the Middle East

The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him

It is Not Just Assad Who is “Responsible” for the Rise of ISIS

Mother of All Hypocrisies: Trump Cares for Some Syrian Babies Not Others

Trump is Ignorant of History and So is His Chump Sean Spicer

US Airstrikes: What Did the Russians Know and When Did They Know It?

As ISIS’s Caliphate Shrinks, Syrian Anger Grows

Martin McGuinness: From “Super-Terrorist” to Super Statesman

Trump’s Kind of Immigrants: White Canadians!

Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?

The Education of Marine Le Pen

Why a Victory Over ISIS in Mosul Might Spell Defeat in Deir Ezzor

The Perils of Trump Addiction

Why Arab Autocrats Haven’t Confronted Trump

Why Israel is in for a Rough Ride Under Trump

Trump’s Wicked Precedent

Trump’s Presidency-by-Tweet: Bad for Muslims, Great for ISIS

How a Trump Presidency Could Have Been Avoided

The Foreign Correspondent in the Age of Twitter and Trump

Making the Dead Talk

Inside the Scorpion: a Journalist’s Ordeal in Egypt’s Most Notorious Prison

Why We Don’t Dwell on Turkish Deaths in the West

Is Yemen Too Much for the World to Take?

After Mosul Falls, ISIS will Flee to Syria. Then What?

The Butcher of Qana: Shimon Peres Was No Peacemaker

Cliché and Banality at the Debates: Trump and Clinton on the Middle East