Assad will breathe a sigh of relief at death of Arab Spring

The Arab Spring may be dead but the security establishment in Washington will be pleased. So, I suspect, will President Bashar al-Assad of Syria

Hosni Mubarak has fallen. Assad clings on. Yet the fate of their nations is anyone’s guess

Not long ago, a Lebanese friend said to me that she feared for her country if Assad was in danger. Now I know what she means

Mubarak will die in jail, but that’s no thanks to us

I fear that, if the dictator has gone, the dictatorship has survived. The army runs Egypt today. And we, in the West, like armies. Washington likes armies

Megrahi is dead. Now we’ll never know the truth about Lockerbie

Lawyers were preparing piles of German interrogation transcripts of young men who may really have planted the bomb. I’ve gone through these files and they were devastating, writes Robert Fisk

Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop?

Some phrases used by Hitler and Churchill and now uttered by the likes of Clinton and Obama have about as much significance as those used by Homer Simpson

Arab Spring has washed the region’s appalling racism out of the news

A health warning, writes Robert Fisk, to all Arab readers of this column: you may not like this week’s rant from yours truly

Rates of cancer, leukaemia and congenital deformities higher in Fallujah than those reported in the aftermath of nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Click to enlarge

The Children of Fallujah – families fight back

Robert Fisk on the legacy of the Anglo-American ‘liberation’ of Iraq

The Children of Fallujah – Sayef’s story

The Children of Fallujah – Sayef’s story

A 2010 study said increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in Fallujah exceeded those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Children of Fallujah – the hospital of horrors

Part II of Robert Fisk’s report from Fallujah a decade after it was ‘liberated’ by U.S. forces

Madness is not the reason for this massacre

As usual, the journos have got into bed with the military to create a madman rather than a murderous soldier. Off his head. Didn’t know what he was doing. No wonder he was whisked out of Afghanistan at such speed

The heroic myth and the uncomfortable truth of war reporting

Funny, that the newsrooms of London and Washington didn’t have quite the same enthusiasm to get their folk into Gaza as they did to get them into Homs. Just a thought. A very unhappy one

The new Cold War has already started – in Syria

The new Cold War has already started – in Syria

Why does Britain’s forign minister fail to acknowlege that there already is another Middle East “nation” that has, in fact, several hundred nuclear weapons along with the missiles to fire them?

An attack on Tehran would be madness: So don’t rule it out

Maybe it’s because I’ve been in the Middle East for 36 years, but I sniff some old herrings in the air, writes Robert Fisk

The present stands no chance against the past

The Independent is a paper that caters to pretentious middle-class liberals. So perhaps it’s no surprise that its one asset – Robert Fisk – has been given increasingly less prominence as he’s becomes more critical of Israel and the corporate media

Assad faces his people’s hatred – but as their anger grows, his excuses are still just the same

As for foreign plots, who doubts that weapons are pouring into Syria from Assad’s enemies in Lebanon?

Bankers are the dictators of the West

Enda Kenny, solemnly informed the Irish that they were not responsible for the crisis in which they found themselves. What he did not tell them was who was to blame. Isn’t it time he and other EU leaders told us us? And our reporters, too?

Back To Tahrir Square

Disillusioned Egyptians are flooding back to join protests on Cairo’s Tahrir Square

‘The real fight for democracy in Egypt has yet to begin’

A Cairo newspaper editor tells Robert Fisk why Egypt’s elections won’t stop protestors gathering on Tahrir Square

Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK

Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK

This was not a myth but a real, down-to-earth conspiracy

Exile dreams of a bloodless return after a life spent opposing Assad regime

Like all exiles, senior representative of the exiled Syrian National Council, Khaled Khoja basks in a strange mixture of fantasy and reality. He talks to Robert Fisk in Istanbul