Iraq

Mediators push US-Iran ceasefire extension as deal hopes fade

Sources tell MEE progress made on key issues, but major gaps remain ahead of Wednesday’s deadline

'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran

Had Bush and Blair been punished for Iraq war crimes, Iran might have been spared

Peter Oborne

Trump's 'Apocalypse Now' is a busted flush. Iran has proved it and China knows it

David Hearst

'Islamic bomb': The secret Pakistani scheme to make Iran a nuclear power

How US-Israeli war gave Iran all the cards in the Middle East

David Hearst

How the war on Iran revived the Axis of Resistance

Mohammad Ataie

With his 'Stone Age' threat to Iran, Trump has unleashed a new age of savagery

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Why Turkey will be a key regional powerbroker after Iran war

Taha Ozhan

From Nadia Murad to Suad al-Ali: Iraqi women fight for political inclusion

Lina Khatib

ICC on collision course with US over looming Afghan war crimes probe

Nobel winner Nadia Murad calls for Islamic State militants to be tried

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yazidi anti-sexual violence campaigner Nadia Murad

EU's Iraq envoy struck down by Basra's dirty water

New Iraqi government faces protest and division as it looks to unify nation

Fraction of refugees to be admitted by US in 2019 will hail from Middle East

Newly elected Iraqi president tasks Adel Abdul Mahdi with forming government

How locals are turning Basra's poisoned rivers into drinking water

Arabic press review: UAE hedges bets in Saudi-Canada brouhaha

Unrest in Basra: US is playing politics, governor tells MEE

Female activist's death sparks fears of assassination campaign in Basra