Robert Fisk

Muammar Gaddafi told us last night that he had not even begun to use bullets against his enemies...

The protesters who are calling for an end to royal rule are in no mood to compromise

Two days after millions of Egyptians won their revolution against the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the country's army – led by Mubarak's lifelong friend, General Mohamed el-Tantawi – further consolidated its power over Egypt yesterday, dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution.

Obama scrambles to limit damage after Frank Wisner makes robust call for Mubarak to remain in place as leader.

Protesters in Tahrir Square are right to be sceptical despite the apparent shake-up in Egypt's ruling party.

The sky was filled with rocks. The fighting around me was so terrible we could smell the blood.

It was a victory parade – without the victory.

A brutal regime is fighting, bloodily, for its life. Robert Fisk reports from the streets of Cairo

Our writer joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.

Israeli government of Nobel laureate Shimon Peres said there were terrorists among the dead civilians – totally untrue, but who cares? – and then came the second Qana massacre in 2006 and then the 2008-09 Gaza slaughter of 1,300 Palestinians, most of them children, and then...

I began my column last week with the words "We know all about Guantanamo". I was wrong.

If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua.

Democracy doesn't seem to work when countries are occupied by Western troops.

Most of the West Bank is under rule which amounts to apartheid by paper

No, Chomsky was wrong. It's not about consent. It's about the manufacture of social, political and historical denial. The motto is familiar and simple: always give in to the bully.

It is indeed an 'intifada' that has broken out in Iran, however hopeless its aims

The BBC Trust's report on Jeremy Bowen's dispatches from the Middle East is pusillanimous, cowardly, outrageous, factually wrong and ethically dishonest.

Obama'nın Netahyahu'yu kibirli bulduğu söyleniyor. ABD, Gazze saldırısının erken bitirildiğini savunan Bibi'nin kuracağı bir hükümeti 'barış sürecinde ileriye doğru bir adım' olarak makyajlayıp satmakta zorlanacak.

The mere monitoring of bloody conflict assumes precedence over human suffering

Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs isto make peace with Israel

It all depends where you live.

So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night's work in Gaza by the army that believes in "purity of arms". But why should we be surprised?

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

Three bodies lie beside a Baghdad street on a blindingly hot day. The one on the right is dressed in a white shirt and bright green trousers, his hands tied behind his back.