Why Saudi Arabia has turned on Lebanon with a vengeance
After pouring billions into rebuilding the country following successive Israeli invasions and air raids, the Saudis find that they cannot prevent the Shia from expressing their fury at Riyadh
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After pouring billions into rebuilding the country following successive Israeli invasions and air raids, the Saudis find that they cannot prevent the Shia from expressing their fury at Riyadh
The tables have turned and now it is the rebels who find themselves surrounded, along with the tens of thousands of civilians in their sector of the city
Doesn’t Netanyahu realise how enraged Europeans are at his government’s treatment of the Palestinians?
He can hardly speak – and although we are assured his brain is active – we should wonder who is using him as a ventriloquist's dummy
Both countries are waging a war on terrorism, but their enemies appear to have several faces
We have to remember that on the UN Council we can find such vigorous defenders of human rights as China and Russia
General O’Callaghan knew that peace is a much harder struggle than war
The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate’s finest hotels
Françoise Frenkel's book 'Rien où poser sa tête' has been rescued from obscurity. Robert Fisk celebrates an extraordinary writer, and her story which has a mystery at its heart.
Surely Indonesia, with a Sunni population of 200 million, would have an interest in joining
‘Criminals’ are our chaps, while ‘terrorists’ are dark-skinned Muslims
Watching our Parliament’s grotesque debate on Syrian airstrikes last week (which had more to do with the destruction of Corbyn than the destruction of Isis), I do wonder what the future holds for Britain
Sixty-five opposition figures are supposed to achieve Arab unity in time for international talks
Isis was quick to understand a truth the West must now confront: that the national borders imposed by colonial powers 100 years go are becoming meaningless, says Robert Fisk
Despite the President's huffing and puffing about war the spiritual mentors of the militants will be left untouched
The French-Algerian identity of one of the attackers demonstrates how France’s savage 1956-62 war in Algeria continues to infect today’s atrocities.
Brian Keenan was held by Shia Muslims loyal to Hezbollah in Lebanon