Robert Fisk

Directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington in the Korangal Valley during the filming of 'Restrepo'

Robert Fisk: The US film that confronts the truth about Afghanistan

Caught on camera

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The ancient city of Tadmor (Palmyra), where up to a thousand Islamist prisoners were massacred in 1982

Syria's 30 years of fear

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Robert Fisk: A grim report sheds light on the thousands of 'disappearances' during Hafez al-Assad's rule

Botch and learn: the  world's media await the arrival of the Gaza flotilla that was stormed by the Israeli Navy

Fighting talk: Journalism as a linguistic battleground

Monday, 21 June 2010

Robert Fisk: Using terms such as ‘spike in violence’ is playing along with a pernicious game.

Soldiers confront civil rights marchers in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972

The day the innocent became the guilty

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Robert Fisk: Tough' was the word we used if the soldiers were beating up rioters. Brutal was the word we should have used.

Turkish medics carry a wounded activist released after Israeli soldiers stormed an aid convoy on its way to Gaza

The truth behind the Israeli propaganda

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Robert Fisk: I have, of course, been outraged at armed men boarding ships in international waters, killing passengers on board who attempt to resist and then forcing their ship to the hijackers' home port.

West is too cowardly to help save lives

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Robert Fisk: Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday's killings mean that the world will no longer accept Israel's rule?

Robert Fisk: Remorse and redemption in a terrorist's mind

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Letter from a prisoner

Made in Russia: A woman washes her laundry in front of a Soviet-made Lebanese Army tank deployed on the 'Green Line' dividing Beirut, in April 1989

Russia: Middle East peace broker?

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Robert Fisk: If America can't broker peace in the Middle East, is it time for the Russians to step in? They have a long history with the region – and aren't hobbled by an Israeli lobby

Ottoman buildings lay neglected in Beirut while high-rise developments proliferate

Robert Fisk: Beirut is determined to kill its rich Ottoman past

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Destruction of history

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