Robert Fisk's Blog
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
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
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
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
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
November 2, 2020
Journalists must always fight spin
Robert Fisk questioned why so many defence correspondents often came across as mouthpieces for military propaganda
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
August 27, 2020
Scientists create 'army of tiny walking robots' in major breakthrough
August 11, 2020
How do you save a truly corrupt country like Lebanon? It's a question with an almost impossible answer
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
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