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A Civil War Without End
The Battle for Kobani
• October 30, 2014
• 3,200 Words • 5 Comments • Reply
Over the summer Isis – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – defeated the Iraqi army, the Syrian army, the Syrian rebels and the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga; it established a state stretching from Baghdad to Aleppo and from Syria’s northern border to the deserts of Iraq in the south. Ethnic and religious groups of... Read More
A Long Ferment in the Middle East
The Hazards of Revolution
• December 27, 2013
• 3,300 Words • Leave a Comment
Soon after the Libyan capital fell to the rebels in August 2011 I got to know a 32-year-old man called Ahmed Abdullah al-Ghadamsi. We met when he tried to evict me from my hotel room, which he said was needed for members of the National Transitional Council, in effect the provisional government of Libya. I... Read More
Patrick Cockburn
About Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting. His book on his years covering the war in Iraq, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction.


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Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
A Diary of Four Wars
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How Syria Became a More Dangerous Quagmire Than Iraq
A War No One is Winning
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Welcome to Lebanon: Graveyard of the Arrogant
"Failed State" Myths
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The Great Escape from Kandahar
Full Story of the Taliban's Amazing Jailbreak
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Afghans to Obama: Get Out, Take Karzai with You
"They Can't Even Protect Themselves, So What Can They Do For Me?"
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Warlord: The Rise of Muqtada al-Sadr
"All Hell is Breaking Loose with Muqtada" Warlord: the Rise of Muqtada al-Sadr
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