Robert Fisk

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

Saudi Arabia: Can’t Pay Its Bills, Yet Funds War on Yemen

Iraq’s Willing Executioners

The Sultan’s Hit List Grows, as Turkey Prepares to Enter Syria

Erdogan’s New Prisoners Could Languish for Years Without Trial

The Sultan and the Tsar: Erdogan Travels to Russia

The Shadow of Roger Casement: Were Colonial Regimes More Sensitive to Human Rights Than Our Own Governments?

Don’t be Fooled by Reports that al-Qaeda and Nusra Have Split for the Good of the Suffering Syrian People

How to Understand the Beheading of a French Priest

The Hypocrisies of Terror Talk

The Infinite Sadness of Syria

Erdogan Had It Coming: the Turkish Coup Failed, But Another Will Succeed

How Do We Separate Truth From Lies in War Crime Reporting?

Why the US Dropped Its Demand That Assad Must Go

Oil and Amnesia: Obama and Saudi Arabia’s “Forgotten” Ties to 9/11

The Problem With the One-for-One Refuge Policy

The West’s Flawed Desire to “Liberate” the Middle East

How ISIS and the Taliban are Carving Up Mafiastan

Is Algeria’s Military Making Its Move on Aging President Bouteflika?

The Saudi Rules

Invitation to a Beheading: Saudi Arabia’s Enablers

Saudi Arabia’s Mad Head-Choppers

Sitrep Afghanistan: Bad, Getting Worse

Playing Right Into ISIS’s Hands

70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron’s “Moderate” Rebels

The Soothsayers of Eternal War

Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks

Days and Nights Under ISIS

The Return of the Syrian Army

Beheading the Guardian of Palmyra

Only Israel Will Miss Tony Blair

Palestine and the ICC

Ireland and the Civil War

ISIS: Made on the Net?

The Futility of Bombing ISIS

When Irony Fails: Obama’s Syrian Airstrikes

The Latest Evil Force, Since the Last Evil Force

How the Palestinians Won

Gaza and the Press

The True Gaza Backstory

Why is the World Turning a Blind Eye to US Drone Strikes?

The Horrors of the "Great" War

What Muslim Will Ever Trust the Ballot Box Again?

The US and Israel’s Syrian Airstrikes

Syria and Sarin Gas: a Familiar Ring

The Hospital of Horrors

The Children of Fallujah

Nuclear Iran

Why Iranians Hate the British

Who Cares What Obama Says?

Why are We Still in Afghanistan?