The Children of Fallujah–The Hospital of Horrors
Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe – what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?
Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe – what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?
Special Report day one: The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America’s dirty war still being
“There is no real country anymore.” – We’ve lost our sense of something that belongs to us, our homeland. We’ve lost our national identity as
After invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, we plan to clap as Israel bombs Iran If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it –
Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause
As usual, Hanan Ashrawi, the only eloquent Palestinian voice in New York this week, got it right. “I couldn’t believe what I heard,” she told
Palestinians: The Winners; U.S. & Israel: The Losers Robert Fisk The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they
The Iranians know how to do these things. Dr Masoud Ali Mohamedi’s car is a shocking sight, its twisted Tehran registration plate – 53Y392
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s irascible, unpredictable but devout president, may be forced to resign in the coming weeks as a political crisis far greater than the
A new paperback thumped out of my mail package from London this week. Tweets from Tahrir, it is called, and I sighed with distaste. As
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have
/**/ So he will go down fighting. That’s what Muammar Gaddafi told us last night, and most Libyans believe him. This will be no smooth
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
/**/ /**/ Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama’s envoy to Cairo who infuriated the White House this weekend by urging Hosni Mubarak to remain President
The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak’s son Gamal
“President” Hosni Mubarak’s counter-revolution smashed into his opponents yesterday in a barrage of stones, cudgels, iron bars and clubs, an all-day battle in the very
The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around
It might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons,
The Palestine Papers are as damning as the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian “Authority” – one has to put this word in quotation marks – was
It’s the same old problem for us in the West. We mouth the word “democracy” and we are all for fair elections – providing the
Julian Assange may claim that WikiLeaks’ disclosure of US documents is for the good of the world, but in Lebanon they have had an incendiary
I came to the latest uproarious US diplomatic history with the deepest cynicism. And yesterday, in the dust of post-election Cairo – the Egyptian parliamentary
But then again, talking of rapacity, the Arabs spent $84bn underwriting the Anglo-American operation against Saddam in 1990-91 – three times what Fahd gave to
In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter’s reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to
Protest demonstrations over Iran’s presidential election results spread across at least 80 cities in six continents this weekend – with one worrying sign for supporters