Robert Fisk on The Independent

GCSEs are a pointless waste of time

A few facts. Last year almost 70% of 16 year olds achieved at least 5 GCSE passes with grades A*-C. ...

Asylum seekers: When the questions tell us so much more than the answers

For the last four years I've been paying my karmic dues (I would say "contributing to the big societ...

Thanks to The Sun, for enriching each of our lives

Those at the super-soaraway Sun are, yet again, making outlandish claims that they’ve changed the wo...

Robert Fisk: The West is horrified by children's slaughter now. Soon we'll forget

29 May 2012 12:00 AM

The Algerian FLN regime got away with it, after 200,000 dead – compared to the mere 10,000 killed so far in Syria's war

Pakistani surgeon Shakeel Afridi helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound

Robert Fisk: Clinton's $33m raid on Pakistan shows that, in the end, hypocrisy will win

28 May 2012 12:00 AM

The Long View: Are the Pakistanis being so dastardly when they lock up a national who has helped in a murder?

A mourner fires his rifle as the coffin and turban of Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmed Abdul-Wahid is carried through his home town

Cloud of Syria's war hangs over Lebanese cleric's death

22 May 2012 12:00 AM

The fatal shooting of Sheikh Abdul-Wahid by a soldier raised fears about the influence of the Assad regime over the border, reports Robert Fisk

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died two years and nine months after being released from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds

Robert Fisk: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is dead. Now we'll never know the truth about Lockerbie

21 May 2012 09:30 AM

As a former Libyan intelligence officer, Megrahi's hands were dirty

Robert Fisk: The Belfast hotel where you check in but never leave

21 May 2012 12:00 AM

The Long View: "But 1973 should come in with hope for all men and women," the Governor wrote. Pull the other one

As with Iran and Syria, the usual clichés have been used in the reporting of Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri’s underpants bomb

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

14 May 2012 10:00 AM

Even Churchill told the Empire that Britain would 'not stand by idly and see Poland trampled'

Robert Fisk: Arab Spring has washed the region's appalling racism out of the news

07 May 2012 12:00 AM

The Long View: Migrant workers from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in slums – even in oil-rich Kuwait

Robert Fisk: Did Osama really believe I would polish his image?

04 May 2012 12:00 AM

O Lordy, lordy. So there's Bin Laden, hiding in Abbottabad and he's waffling on about Fisk.

Muslims performing one of the five pillars of Islam, the pilgrimage to Mecca

Robert Fisk: After the Arab Spring, an Islamic Awakening?

27 April 2012 08:00 PM

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, Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid.

Five-year-old Sayef Ala’a with his father who hopes that foreign surgeons can rebuild his son’s ear

Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - families fight back

27 April 2012 12:00 AM

Special Report day three: Abandoned and afraid, the parents of Iraq's suffering children wait in vain for help

Dr Aiman Qeis cares for babies at Fallujah General Hospital, which has a high rate of children born with congenital defects

Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors

26 April 2012 12:00 AM

Special Report day two: Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe - what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?

Mariam Yasir, six, with her mother in Fallujah - she suffers from a birth defect

Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story

25 April 2012 12:00 AM

Special Report day one: The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America's dirty war still being born?

US Marines during the ground offensive in Fallujah in November 2004

Robert Fisk: Iraq's road back from oblivion

24 April 2012 12:00 AM

Memories of sectarian war, kidnapping and child killing are fading. It is safer. But nine years since Saddam's fall, Robert Fisk meets many who feel they have lost their homeland

In Syria, the regime is crushing dissent, while the Qataris and Saudis arm the rebels

Robert Fisk: Counter-revolution – the next deadly chapter

21 April 2012 12:00 AM

It was my old Jordanian-Palestinian chum Rami Khouri who first spotted what is going on in the Middle East right now: it's the counter-revolution. Bahrain is crushing dissent. Syria is crushing dissent. Mubarak's former head of intelligence, the sinister Omar Suleiman, is standing for president in Egypt – the cancellation of his candidacy last week by a dodgy "electoral committee" may well be overturned. Libya is at war with itself. Yemen has got its former dictator's sidekick back. Sixty-one dead in a battle between soldiers and al-Qa'ida last week – in a single day. All in all, a pretty mess.