Robert Fisk

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.

The foundation of their lives remains the war that was fought before they were born

The Americans are just apeing their predecessors in the Inquisition

It's not difficult to create orphans in Iraq. If you're an insurgent, you can blow yourself up in a crowded market. If you're an American air force pilot, you can bomb the wrong house in the wrong village.

Weird, isn't it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us.

In Beirut, people are moving o

The Turks say the Armenians di

Irak'ın, insan medeniyetinin beşiği olan tarihi geçmişinin neredeyse tamamının yok oluşu, bizim feci ve utanç verici işgalimizin en önemli sembollerinden biri oldu.

Always, we have betrayed them. We backed "Flossy" in Yemen. The French backed their local "harkis" in Algeria; then the FLN victory forced them to swallow their own French military medals before dispatching them into mass graves.

The Lebanese army is about the only institution still working in this country

I guess that's what diplomacy is all about, persuading here, pleading there

How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are.

A report from the man who broke the original story...

Everybody was obsessed by figures. True, the cortège was proceeding towards the Chatila martyrs' cemetery, true Saad Hariri - the son of the murdered ex-premier whose killers are now to be tried by the United Nations - walked in the vanguard. But it was the numbers that mattered.

A sign of the times. I arrive home in Beirut from Paris, am just 20 minutes into my apartment when the windows of my office blow open with a single "crack".

Inspired by al-Qa'ida, a hitherto little-known militant group is behind the outbreak of bloody violence which has left scores dead

Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?

When has any publisher ever tried to avoid publicity for his book?

Where are the sheikhs when the Iraqi dead are fished out of the Tigris?

For the first time, Sunni insurgents disclose their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq

How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his 'enemies', equipped him for atrocities - and then made sure he wouldn't squeal

No, Israelis are not Nazis. But it's time we talked of war crimes

I call it the Alice in Wonderland effect.

The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on Mesopotamia.

More than half a million deaths, an army trapped in the largest military debacle since Vietnam, a Middle East policy already buried in the sands of Mesopotamia - and still George W Bush is in denial. How does he do it?

In the house of mourning, an old Lebanese home of cut stone, they did not show Pierre Gemayel's body. They had sealed the lid - so terribly damaged was his face by the bullets which killed him - as if the nightmares of Lebanon might thus be kept away in the darkness of the grave.

Civil war - the words on all our lips yesterday.

This is the hell we have bequeathed to the Arab peoples of Iraq

The UN troops claim they are in Lebanon to protect the Shia. The Shia think they're there to protect Israel from Hizbollah. Is this because the peacekeepers are really a Nato army in disguise?

The Shia, the largest community in Lebanon, are no longer represented in the Lebanese government. It could be just part of Lebanon's bloody-minded politics - or it could be a most dangerous moment in the history of this tragic country.