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September 2, 2025

Voices: Alan Kurdi symbolised an army of dead children. We ignore them at our peril

In a piece published a year after the death of the two-year-old boy, the late Robert Fisk asked whether the world had learned any lessons from the tragedy

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Published on September 02, 2025 03:10

March 19, 2023

Shock and awe: Robert Fisk’s dispatch as bombs rained down on Baghdad

The Iraq war began 20 years ago with a night of bombing on capital Baghdad – and Robert Fisk was there to witness it all. Here, we reproduce that day’s reports from The Independent’s celebrated Middle East correspondent

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Published on March 19, 2023 13:25

November 11, 2021

How the poppy became a symbol of racism

The Entente Cordiale which sent my father to France is now trash beneath the high heels of Theresa May, yet this wretched woman dares to wear a poppy

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Published on November 11, 2021 04:18

August 28, 2021

Scenes from an unholy war: Mass murder in Algeria

April 1995: When Robert Fisk is handed barbarous photo album he feels growing need to thumb through the pictures and then, the greatest shock of all, a kind of boredom as the butchery becomes routine

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Published on August 28, 2021 13:30

November 3, 2020

6 December 1993: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace

Robert Fisk is the first western journalist to interview Osama bin Laden, ‘the Saudi businessman’ overseeing large-scale building work in Sudan

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Published on November 03, 2020 11:13

November 2, 2020

Journalists must always fight spin

Robert Fisk questioned why so many defence correspondents often came across as mouthpieces for military propaganda

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Published on November 02, 2020 16:55

27 March 2003: ‘It was an outrage, an obscenity’

A week into the ‘shock and awe’ bombing campaign led by the US and UK, Robert Fisk filed this dispatch from Baghdad in the aftermath of an airstrike

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Published on November 02, 2020 16:55

August 27, 2020

Scientists create 'army of tiny walking robots' in major breakthrough

Scientists have been able to create an army of tiny, walking robots in a new breakthrough.
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Published on August 27, 2020 02:51

August 11, 2020

How do you save a truly corrupt country like Lebanon? It's a question with an almost impossible answer

The poison that is killing the country will require an international reaction not seen in decades if it is to be leached out, writes Robert Fisk
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Published on August 11, 2020 05:45

August 5, 2020

Beirut has suffered a catastrophe that will live long in the memory – and the repeated betrayal of its citizens is a travesty

Lebanon's people face a terrible mix of long-term economic ruin, a pandemic and now a devastating explosion. All presided over by a 'government' unworthy of the name, says Robert Fisk
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Published on August 05, 2020 01:47

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