The Arab Spring has given Turkey a voice. Don’t mess with it

When The Wall Street Journal announces Assad’s forthcoming demise, Robert Fisk writes, I reckon he’s safe for a good while yet

Assad Will Only Go if His Own Tanks Turn Against Him

Despite the widespread protests, speculation that Assad will consider stepping down is wildly optimistic

Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead?

Heaven be thanked that the soldiers of the Great War cannot return today to discover how their sacrifice has been turned into a fashion appendage

Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark

Musings on the demise of Col Gaddafi and Cairo’s history

You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys

Whatever the exact circumstances of his death you can be sure that La Clinton will be happy he was “killed”

Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem

He may not know much about 9/11 but he’s a seasoned observer on the Middle East. Robert Fisk on Jerusalem in the wake of Mahmoud Abbas’s UN speech

Prosecuting war crimes? Be sure to read the small print

It’s good to see bad guys behind bars. Especially if they’re convicted

History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh

There maybe no walls around it yet but the massive presence of Western diplomats, oil-company men, Western mercenaries and shady British and French servicemen – all pretending to be “advisers” rather than participants – is the Benghazi Green Zone

How Long Before the Dominoes Fall?

And which will be the next one: Syria, Pakistan or Iran?

It’s his fast-disappearing billions that will worry Assad, not words from Washington

Obama says Assad must “step aside”. Do we really think Damascus trembles? Or is going to?

The city and its workers that first took on Mubarak

Robert Fisk on “the forgotten actors” of the Egyptian revolution

Once untouchable, the old despot and his sons faced the wrath of the nation they had terrorised

From Damascus and Amman and Rabat there was silence. And, strange to say, not a word from Washington, whose old chum Hosni now faces (in theory) a death sentence

Egypt’s revolutionary youth are being sidelined

Revolution betrayed – Arab Spring turned into eternal Arab autumn

The Arab world’s dictators cling on, but for how long?

The reverberations continue across the region: mounting anger in Egypt over the slow pace of reforms; reports of continued unrest in Syria; and now protests have even spread to Israel too

Heard the one about the child and the blood money?

Robert Fisk finds an old joke book in a Tehran bazaar that in its own way says more about Iran than any corporate media commentator

In Tahrir Square the anger is growing again. Where is the revolution the crowds fought for?

In Tahrir Square the anger is growing again. Where is the revolution the crowds fought for?

The high hopes fade as Egypt’s Military Council fails to deliver and anger returns to Cairo’s streets

Why I had to leave The Times

In the Middle East, Arab journalists knew what their masters wanted, and helped to create a journalistic desert without the water of freedom, an utterly skewed version of reality. So, too, within the Murdoch empire

The new focus of Syria’s crackdown has seen similar bloodshed before

As everywhere else, history maybe repeating itself in Syria. Robert Fisk explains

How Iran wages its own global ‘war on terror’

Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. The all-purpose hate-word was being used by the Ahmadinejads and the Muslim leaders at the podium with Bush-like frequency

First the Syrians, then the Iranians, then the Libyans were the expedient culprits

Did Hezbollah kill Hariri? I was only 400 metres from the bomb explosion on 14 February 2005, lucky to be alive, unlucky enough to see Hariri burning on the roadside