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

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees may return home in 2019: UNHCR

Nadia Murad calls for justice for IS victims at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

OPEC agrees to cut oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day, despite US pressure

'Saboteurs': Non-state actors accused of killing and abusing Basra activists

This Middle East passport gets you into the most countries without a visa

Lost youth: Scarred children of Turkish Islamic State fighters return home

'The Baghdad Clock': A novel of Iraqi youth in search of lost time

George HW Bush and the Middle East: How his legacy lives on

Mohammed bin Salman is a modern-day Saddam. He must go

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

Why the West's World War One carve-up is still unfinished business

Mark Curtis

Matthew Hedges looking to sue UAE over jailing: Report

Iraq floods leave 21 dead and tens of thousands displaced