Iraq

Mecca Agreement: A Muslim Nato or yet another Baghdad Pact?

The Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani pact reinforces the US-run regional order that analysts claim it defies - which explains why Trump was so quick to bless it

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Why the Mecca Agreement has given the UAE-Israel alliance the jitters

David Hearst

Iran warns enemies to 'anticipate strategic surprises' as it shifts from a defensive stance

How a pragmatic axis could reshape the Middle East

Marco Carnelos

Turkey's cross party Kurdish peace coalition makes history with PKK clemency law

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco reports bumper profits as it bypasses Strait of Hormuz

Has the UAE's meteoric rise reached its limit?

Ahmed Mawlana

US-Saudi strikes test Iraq's balancing act between Riyadh and Tehran

Jack Letts appeals for repatriations from Iraq in 'out of the blue' phone call to parents

Iraq's president threatens to name prime minister if parliament fails to

Qassem Soleimani

US says 50 troops now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after Iran strike

The Turkmen connection to Islamic State's new leader

Ibrahim al-Marashi

Qassem Soleimani

Three rockets strike US embassy in protest-hit Iraqi capital Baghdad

Iraqi forces violently clear protest areas in Baghdad and Basra

At what point do US troops in Iraq become an occupation force?

Four employees of French Christian NGO 'missing in Baghdad'

'Withdraw or prepare coffins': Thousands protest in Iraq against US troop presence

Qassem Soleimani

Protest movement wary of Friday's anti-US demonstration in Iraq

Ruling amid ruins: The plot to break up Iraq

David Hearst

US seeking to carve out Sunni state as its influence in Iraq wanes

Qassem Soleimani

Iraqi president meets with Trump in Davos despite threats from militia groups