Echoes of Stalinism abound in the very modern Azerbaijan-Armenia confl
The same old enemies are clanking around the black mountains of Karabagh: Russian power, Turkish expansionism and Armenian nationalism
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Robert Fisk
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- Robert Fisk is The Independent’s multiple award-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut
What it is like to return to the scene of a war crime
As a witness to the massacre of 1982, I went back often to this place of memories and ghosts, to talk to the survivors
State-of-the-art technology gives Assad’s army the edge in Syria
The regime has lost over 60,000 men since the war began, but new Russian equipment is helping turn the tide
On the front line with Iranian forces battling outside Aleppo
'England is helping Isis and an English reporter is here asking for information'
The untold story of devastating siege of two Shia villages in Syria
Villages that remained loyal to the Syrian regime have paid a steep price
Road back to Damascus: it remains a war zone but some are returning
In this subtle war, men of the Free Syrian Army are being allowed to rejoin the ranks of the government army they deserted on their return to the shattered neighbourhood of al-Qadam
Isis and the Taliban are brutally carving up modern Afghanistan
I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power
A plan must be made for ‘life after Isis’ in the Middle East
In the Second World War, Allied leaders planned for the post-war world – a ‘United Nations’ – years before the conflict ended. We must do the same for the Middle East.
After entering Aleppo, the Syrian army may set its sights on Raqqa
The tables have turned and now it is the rebels who find themselves surrounded, along with the tens of thousands of civilians in their sector of the city
Is the history of Ireland's struggle for independence being twisted?
Ireland has begun centenary celebrations, starting with the Easter Rising of 1916 and ending with the consolidation of the 'free state' in 1923
Restoring Beirut’s Pink House is a cheering idea amid destruction
As a strange development in an age when developers have probably destroyed as many old Beirut houses as the civil war did
‘Regrettable’ is as far as our criticism of Saudi Arabia will ever go
We have condemned them in the lightest terms. The implication is that the good old Saudis have simply let us down – fallen from their previously high moral principles
No state has the moral authority or will to attack this butchery
We have to remember that on the UN Council we can find such vigorous defenders of human rights as China and Russia
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You won't hear it, but news from Afghanistan is bad
Isis men are now fighting in their thousands in the country we arrived to “liberate” 14 years ago, quite apart from tens of thousands of Taliban “pushing” in to their “heartland” around Sangin
Meet the Brit who ignored Taliban threats to teach in Peshawar
"When you have education in its totality, it enables our students to see what should be obvious: we are all one”
The joy of Canada delivered from Harper’s darkness to Trudeau’s light
Harper was an economist. Trudeau used to be a schoolteacher, and has shades of his gadabout but humane PM father Pierre
Why is Indonesia not in the Saudi-led Sunni coalition against terror?
Surely Indonesia, with a Sunni population of 200 million, would have an interest in joining