Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk

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Libya's leader: expelled Palestinians to highlight refugee problem created by Israel

Robert Fisk: Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do

To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home.

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Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to a request from the US to supply weapons to rebels in Libya

America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels

Monday, 7 March 2011

Robert Fisk: Desperate to avoid military involvement in Libya, the US has asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi.

Egyptians embrace while celebrating the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak

Robert Fisk: The Tunisian whose jihad was for the people, not God

Saturday, 5 March 2011

The second Arab awakening of modern history – the first was the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire – requires some new definitions, perhaps even some new words in at least the English language.

Colonel Gaddafi salutes supporters in Tripoli yesterday

The historical narrative that lies beneath the Gaddafi rebellion

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Robert Fisk: Poor old Libyans. After 42 years of Gaddafi, the spirit of resistance did not burn so strongly. The intellectual heart of Libya had fled abroad.

Click to watch video Up to 20,000 migrant workers try to push their way through the Tunisian border crossing at Ras Jedir yesterday

Panic on borders as chaos engulfs Libya

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Robert Fisk: Tens of thousands flee mounting violence as UN warns of urgent humanitarian crisis.

Click to watch video An Egyptian woman flees Libya across the border into Tunisia yesterday

Misery at the border as Gaddafi's guests flee

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Robert Fisk: Libya's migrant workers have become a pitiful human tide.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered his citizens $36bn to keep their mouths shut

Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil

Saturday, 26 February 2011

The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, "shock and awe" was the right description.

A fire burns in a street in the Libyan capital Tripoli in the early hours of yesterday morning

Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Robert Fisk, with the first dispatch from Libya's war-torn capital, reports: Gunfire, fear, hunger and rumour as thousands race for last tickets out of a city sinking into anarchy.

Click to watch video Colonel Gaddafi on state television yesterday, where he said his forces would 'cleanse Libya house by house'

Gaddafi raved and cursed, but he faces forces he cannot control

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Robert Fisk: So he will go down fighting. That's what Muammar Gaddafi told us last night, and most Libyans believe him.

A comedy actor who had turned to serious tragedy in his last days

Cruel, steeped in blood but now surely on his way out?

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Robert Fisk on Muammar Gaddafi, the tyrant of Tripoli.

Click to watch video Mohammed al-Ebrahim

Robert Fisk in Manama: Bahrain – an uprising on the verge of revolution

Monday, 21 February 2011

The protesters who are calling for an end to royal rule are in no mood to compromise

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