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

Hadi al-Amiri withdraws candidacy for Iraqi prime minister

Iraq parliament elects Sunni MP al-Halbousi as speaker, breaking deadlock

The Middle East according to Trump: Seven things we learned from Woodward's 'Fear'

Iraqi PM announces Basra development projects in wake of deadly protests

The Middle East and the World Cup: 15 moments which defined football

Pro-Saddam chants at Algeria-Iraq football match spark diplomatic spat

Iraq's Abadi visits Basra as calls grow for him to resign over crisis

Iran's Revolutionary Guards in missile attack on Iranian Kurdish base in Iraq

Calm returns to Iraq's Basra after week of violent protests

Muqtada al-Sadr calls on Iraq PM to step down as Basra crisis deepens

Attack on Iranian Kurdish rebel group's headquarters in Iraq kills 11

Sistani calls for new Iraqi government as Iranian consulate in Basra set on fire