Bashar al-Assad will get away with it. He got away with Deraa. He got away with Homs. And hell get away with Houla. So will the armed opposition to the regime, along with al-Qaida and any other outfi...
La Clinton hath spoken. Thirty-three million smackers lopped off Pakistans aid budget because its spooks banged up poor old Dr Shakeel Afridi for 33 years after a secret trial. And, as the world know...
There was gunfire at Sheikh Ahmed Abdul-Wahids funeral in northern Lebanon yesterday, a promise from the Lebanese army that they will investigate his killing – by a soldier – on Sunday, and a heap of...
So the old scoundrel has died. Midday Tripoli time, at his home, peacefully, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, after a long struggle with cancer, "bravely borne" no doubt. But "scoundrel", n...
Wars never end. Not if youre fighting in them, even reporting them. The Syrian rebellion – or revolution/spring/civil war/awakening – seems unending. "Palestines" occupation has gone on for 4...
Funny how the news agenda gets tired. Like the quotes. Only a couple of months ago, we were all bracing for Israels attack on Irans nuclear installations. And for serious pressure on Bashar al-Assad ...
How many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have been made against the Sarkozys and the Le Pens and t...
O Lordy, lordy. So theres Bin Laden, hiding in Abbottabad and hes waffling on about Fisk.
More than a decade and a half ago, I travelled to Holland to meet – in the anonymity of a train station café at Leiden, at his request – one of the most brilliant Arab professors of Islamic thought, ...
"He needs multiple surgery outside Iraq. Its a dysfunctional problem. He has no hearing in his left ear. They told me he has to be six before they can remove cartilage from his chest wall to put ...
The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidis administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a...
"Al-Qaida killed two of our men here two days ago," the cop said. "Then they called us up to tell us the name of their operation – on a police radio!" We were standing in rebuilt Fall...
When the Foreign Office urges British motor racing fans to stay away from Bahrain, this aint no sporting event, folks, its a political one. The Bahraini authorities prove it by welcoming sports repor...
It was my old Jordanian-Palestinian chum Rami Khouri who first spotted what is going on in the Middle East right now: its the counter-revolution. Bahrain is crushing dissent. Syria is crushing dissen...
Saad Tahr Hussein rushes me through the narrow alleyway towards Mutanabbi Street, where the concrete wall in front of the central bank hems in the pedestrians. About a thousand Iraqis briefly see – o...
They buried Ali Shabaan as a martyr-reporter yesterday, another journalist of the Syrian war to die in action – but a Lebanese this time, unknown in the West but loved in his little south Lebanon vil...
Andrew White got his blue Iraqi badge on Wednesday – the pass that allows him to move around Baghdad. The Anglican Chaplain to Iraq supported the US invasion – he still thinks Saddam shipped his weap...
So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where were going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi one, which is a war...
A poster of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, smiling at each other hangs over the highway to Al-Qaa. But you know this is no ordinary Lebanese villag...
Syrias bloodbath is carving further divisions in Lebanon as President Bashar al-Assads Lebanese allies and enemies shout more and more insults at each other. The Christians have even divided among th...
Ive been clipping my way these past weeks through a great pile of newspapers filed away from my days as a reporter in Northern Ireland. Rather dull Fisk pieces, I must say, but – turning to old copie...
Im getting a bit tired of the "deranged" soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar...
Here we go again. This libellous and racist quotation comes from an email sent to The Independent by "Bernadette", a member of a pro-Israeli lobby group in Australia.
No entry to the International Red Cross. Not yet. Maybe in a few days, when the area has been secured. Men and boys separated from the women and children. Streams of refugees. Women, children, the ol...
In my 1912 Baedeker guide to Syria, a page and a half is devoted to the city of Homs. In tiny print, it says that, "in the plain to the south-east, you come across the village of Baba Amr. A visi...
It took a lot of courage to get into Homs; Sky News, then the BBC, then a few brave men and women who went to tell the world of the citys anguish and, in at least two cases, suffered themselves. I co...
He is 54 but looks 70 – "like an Indian yogi with a long white beard," as ex-Colonel Mohamed el-Ghanems Swiss lawyer puts it. "I entered his cell – I had a Swiss official next to me who f...
So its the "cleaning" of Baba Amr now, is it? "Tingheef" in Arabic. Did that anonymous Syrian government official really use that word to the AP yesterday? Its a chilling expression, ...
You are no longer following . Undo?
English
Suomi
Svenska