Robert fisk

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who...

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he...

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.