Robert Fisk Why the bombardment of Ghouta won't stop any time soon
Exclusive: Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the US-Kurdish hold on Raqqa
Exclusive: Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the US-Kurdish hold on Raqqa
The Arabs were regarded as exotic and educated peoples whose own culture was never erased from the streets of Portugal’s cities
How can we complain when we will not ourselves deal with the armed Islamist opposition to Assad (I am not at this point talking about Isis) or try to arrange our own ceasefire, even with Russian help? After all, we’ve been arming these people for years
While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the Armenian genocide
Exclusive: It isn’t as if Israel doesn’t have its own plans for a prime ministerial ‘Air Force One’, which would reportedly cost far more than Abbas’s jet – around $70m, although similar in manufacture and design
Dr Heddo – trained as a doctor at the Aleppo medical school, he confided – wouldn’t exactly confirm he was an official of the YPG although he certainly sounded like it. He insisted we were in a medical facility. It had marble floors. It was spotless. And it seemed to have no patients
Debts will have to be paid for the casualties of this war, and some soldiers are becoming rather too over-confident
Exclusive: While the Kurds try to persuade you of their potential loyalty to Syria and disclaim any connection to the rest of Kurdish Syria and the Iraqi Kurds – clearly a lie – they have to proclaim their belief (quite correctly) in their own form of self-government
Exclusive: All around Sinjar and its broken villages, there is mud. Tanks and guns always turn soil into brown liquid which quickly becomes bog
Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be
A presidency built on such weak foundations will do little to help any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and has already made things worse
Jonathan Whittall of Medecins Sans Frontieres scathingly attacked what he called 'stethoscopes for hire', those who operated 'as contractors driven by profit rather than the principles that guide humanitarian action in conflict'
Shortly before Kushner accompanied Trump on his first diplomatic trip to Israel in May, his family real estate company received about $30m in investments from Menora Mivtachim, one of Israel’s largest insurers and financial institutions
Could Trump expect another warm welcome and traditional sword dance in Riyadh? Would the Saudis choose to buy all those billions of weapons from the US if it hands Jerusalem to the Israelis? Doubtful
He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series of discussions on water quality improvement; not exactly the action of a man who planned to resign his premiership
It would be Russia who does the rebuilding of Syria after the war and Saudi Arabia who paid for it. The two vast oil nations now seem to be set on a course of mutual collaboration. So much for Trump’s $300bn weapons deal with the king
It’s actually a rather droll room – dark, heavy panelling, dull, tall windows, a 1930s monster building – the doors and windows far taller than a man or woman. It lacks imagination. I can think of a few other modern day fuehrers who might feel at home here
Some Isis fighters have been allowed to leave, but there will apparently be no forgiveness for the foreign fighters in Raqqa – it seems they will have to fight and die
Following the deal between Fatah and Hamas, the real question is: does Israel want peace with its neighbour?
Christianity is an eastern religion. Jesus appears in the Quran (so does Mary) and for more than 600 years, Christ’s followers had it all to themselves in the Middle East
Robert Fisk travelled to Hong Kong in 2015 to meet the grande dame of war reporting