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Robert Fisk

The British should not forget the debt they owe the Irish

Robert Fisk's World: Those long-dead soldiers were in the wrong uniform in the wrong war.

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Taliban fighters in Maydan Shahr, west of Kabul

'Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate government'

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Robert Fisk reflects on an Afghanistan cursed by brutal fundamentalism and rampant corruption.

Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside at Maydan Shahr in Wardak province, west of Kabul,

Kabul then and now. Have we learned nothing?

Saturday, 22 November 2008

Robert Fisk: 'Terrorists' were in Soviet sights; now they are in the Americans'.

Actors on the set of The White Rock, about the murder of 680 Afghan refugees by Iranians

Making movies the Afghan way

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Robert Fisk: Cinema was banned under the Taliban, but film-makers are once again at work inside Afghanistan.

An Afghan woman talks with Shamsia as she rests on a hospital bed in Kabul.

Once more fear stalks the streets of Kandahar

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Five years after his last visit, Robert Fisk finds the Taliban back in charge of their spiritual home – and girls attacked with acid simply for attending school.

Robert Fisk's World: There is no end to the centuries of savagery in Afghanistan

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Geneva Conventions were supposed to end the mass destruction of human life

The explosion in Beirut in February 2005 that killed the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri

Double agents, car bombs and antics worthy of 007

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Robert Fisk wonders what Syria was up to when it aired a mass confession on TV.

Barack Obama

Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush's delusions

Saturday, 8 November 2008

Robert Fisk: He will have to get out of Iraq, and tell Israel a few home truths

Robert Fisk’s World: Arabs have to rely on Britain and Israel for their history

Saturday, 1 November 2008

There is no Public Record Office in the Arab World, no National Archive

FBI evidence against Hadj Boudella has been withdrawn, on the ground that it was 'not reliable'

Robert Fisk: Scandal of six held in Guantanamo even after Bush plot claim is dropped

Friday, 31 October 2008

No evidence that men living in Bosnia plotted attack on Sarajevo embassy

Financial doom and gloom is everywhere – except Lebanon

Saturday, 25 October 2008

Robert Fisk: Beirut’s Blombank has a record 34 per cent rise in profits

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