Minister for information who wants to go straight

The Syrians have learnt a lot from CNN and Al-Jazeera. Robert Fisk explains

Mass burial for the victims whom, Western media reported, "activists said were killed by forces loyal to Syria's president". Click to enlarge

Inside Daraya – how a failed prisoner swap turned into a massacre

The first Western journalist to report first hand from the scene of the massacre finds it may have been worse than first reported. And rather different too

‘We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments’

Robert Fisk talks to Syria’s Foreign Minister Wallid Muallem, as explosions and tank fire rumble in the distance

The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t

War is a filthy affair and inevitably some of the dirt ends up on the participants. Robert Fisk reports first hand from Syria

The bloody truth about Syria’s uncivil war

The bloody truth about Syria’s uncivil war

Robert Fisk reports first hand from the conflict in Syria and confirms once again that most of those involved in the insurgency are not Syrian

Syria’s newspapers trumpet an army victory but the sound of shellfire tells the true story

In Aleppo, where the government claims to be winning, the battles continue. In Damascus, which the government believes it holds, the sniping continues the moment you reach the city limits

Aleppo’s poor get caught in the crossfire of Syria’s civil war

Robert Fisk talks to those who got caught in the crossfire when the ‘Free Syrian Army’ came to town

‘Rebel army? They’re a gang of foreigners’

‘Rebel army? They’re a gang of foreigners’

Robert Fisk confirms what has long been suspected. However, even more incredibly many of those ‘Syrian rebels’ captured in Aleppo thought they were liberating Jerusalem!!

‘No power can bring down the Syrian regime’

Robert Fisk reports first hand from the battle-scarred streets of Aleppo, Syria

‘They snipe at us then run and hide in sewers’

Robert Fisk reports first hand from Aleppo, Syria, where he accompanies an army patrol and confirms earlier reports of “foreigners” in the fighting

Damascus: A deserted city, a deserting UN, and a storm about to break

Robert Fisk reports from the tense and largely desolate streets of Syria’s capitol

Syria’s conflict has crossed the border, and the ghost of Lebanon’s civil war returns

Kidnappings stir memories of memories of Lebanon’s own civil war

In the end, all Israel and her Western allies want to do is to break Iran – via Syria

In the end, it’s all about Iran, the target of Qatar’s and Saudi Arabia’s and America’s and Israel’s suspicion and hatred. Break Iran – via Syria

For the minorities, even neutrality is unsafe

No, Bashar al-Assad is not Hitler, but God spare the Palestinians and the Christians of Syria during these terrible times

Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy

Stating what should be obvious but which, nonetheless bears repetition: the campaign against Syria’s Assad is not about ‘human rights’ or ‘justice’, its about overthrowing a key Iranian ally and undermining Tehran itself

Yes, there’s violence, but some Syrians think it’s time to return

Could Bashar now be winning – however briefly – against all the odds?

If Alawites are turning against Assad then his fate is sealed

Violence spread to Aleppo this weekend, writes Robert Fisk. Meaning that if Syria’s richest city is caught in the growing unrest, then the tacit agreement between the Alawite-controlled government and the Sunni middle classes must truly be cracking

Sectarianism bites into Syria’s rebels

Interestingly, Robert Fisk’s latest assessment of Syria was given minimal prominence by the increasingly suspect Independent. Is Fisk revealing more about events in Syria than the powers that be want?

Syria rebels will not claim their greatest prize

Syrian carnage echoes that of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia

Beiruts banks – and a money trail from Syria to Iran…

Every time there is a new hate wave against the hateful Islamic Republic, or a new Israeli-Hezbollah dust-up, New York fumes with allegations that Lebanon’s bankers are deep in the financial mud with the various Hitlers of the Middle East