Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is the multi-award winning Middle East correspondent of The Independent, based in Beirut. He has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions.

Robert Fisk: Sudan Protesters Were Right to Fear the Arrival of Saudi and UAE Money

The US has found itself in an even more embarrassing situation than it did in Egypt.

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By Robert Fisk
Sudan Protests photo of the day

The Sudanese democracy demonstrators were the first to protest at Saudi Arabia’s interference in their revolution. We all knew that the Saudis and the Emiratis had been funnelling millions of dollars into the regime of Omar al-Bashir, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court and now chucked out of power by a Sisi-like military

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After Warnings of Mass Murder and Catastrophe, Robert Fisk Prowled the Idlib Front Lines

The only massed forces Fisk came across were vast herds of sheep and, close to Aleppo, a string of camels. War might be coming, but not yet.

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By Robert Fisk
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Every journalist would like to start a report with the words: “All quiet on the western front.” Or the eastern front. And I had actually scribbled “all quiet on the northern front” in my notebook, on my rural way to the far northern village of Kansabba on Syria’s front line opposite Idlib province, when an artillery piece in the forest banged off a

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The Serbian Arms-Maker and the Syrian War

Robert Fisk confronts the Serbian weapons manufacturer ostensibly behind the weapons shipped to extremist groups in Syria via Saudi Arabia and her allies.

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By Robert Fisk
In this June 28, 2011 file photo, a visitor looks at assault rifles made by the Serbian company Zastava Arms, during a defense fair, in Belgrade, Serbia. Darko Vojinovic | AP

There’s no doubt about the affection in which Serbia’s Zastava weapons factory is held in the Middle East. Along the wall of Milojko Brzakovic’s managerial boardroom there are tokens of gratitude from the Arab world: plaques from Libya, from the “Public Security Directorate” of Jordan – a smart Hashemite crown above two curved swords – from the

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Kushner’s “Ultimate Deal” Would Strip Palestinians of Their Human Dignity

After three Arab-Israeli wars, tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and millions of refugees, does Jared Kushner really believe that the Palestinians will settle for cash?

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By Robert Fisk
Israeli police detain a Palestinian boy outside the Lion's Gate near the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 23, 2017. Ariel Schalit | AP

Is there no humiliation left for the Palestinians? After Oslo, after the “two state solution”, after the years of Israeli occupation – of “Area A” and “Area C” to define which kind of occupation the Palestinians must live under – after the vast Jewish colonisation of land thieved from its Arab owners, after the mass killings of Gaza, and Trump’s

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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.

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By Robert Fisk
Syrian refugee Eidah Hassoun, 36, sits with her children inside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.

There are times in the Middle East when nightmares and delusions take the place of the real and growing tragedy which is consuming the Arab lands. More and more earnest are the calls for peace as more and more nations launch more and more air raids, from Kabul to the Mediterranean, and down through Sinai and Yemen and across to Libya. The bloodbath

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70,000 Moderate Fighters in Syria? It’s Another Cameron Photoshop

David Camreon is once again working overtime to sell a new war to the British public.

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By Robert Fisk
British Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, talks with Royal Navy personnel during his visit to Royal Air Force station RAF Northolt, in west London on Monday Nov. 23, 2015. (Justin Tallis, Pool/AP)

Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 “moderate” fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied –

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