One day, Stalingrad can be transposed for Kursk, or Alamein transposed for Tobruk

Do the British people love Blair? Do they eat Blair chocolates and wear Blair pyjamas?

The presumption of guilt is just one of Saddam's creation that has outlived the dictator

The  story of a primary-school teacher, Margaret Skinnider, who was shot and wounded during the Easter 1916 uprising, has rightly caught the eye of Dublin journalists

Everyone knows that the Assad regime – from father Hafez onwards – has employed torture and executions to preserve the doubtful purity of the Baath party

This is such stuff as dreams are made on, enough to banish any nightmares troubling the sleep of Egypt’s army commander, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi

Was the British Empire about to crumble from within? This was the question at the start of 1914

Of its 250,000 Palestinians, scarcely 18,000 now remain; up to 1,500 are dead, many of them due to hunger

Nine years ago, Lebanon’s Prime Minister was murdered. But his alleged killers won’t be at the tribunal in The Hague as they haven’t been arrested. Robert Fisk says history shows the guilty will never face justice

For years, Iraqis have been telling me that they prefer ‘security’ to ‘anarchy’