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

Open arms and cIosed doors: IS members' families face hard return home

Iraqi police use batons against protesters outside Basra oilfield

UK personnel 'could face murder trials' over drone strikes, MPs warn

At least five dead as Basra protests spread across southern Iraq

Scores wounded as protesters clash with police across southern Iraq

Iraq protests spread to several cities amid more deaths

Iraq PM heads to oil-rich Basra in attempt to quell deadly protests

Turn up the radio! Mosul station promotes tolerance amid Islamic State destruction

Iraq's Basra rocked by protests after demonstrator killed

A year after defeating IS, Iraq's government must offer a national vision

Ibrahim al-Marashi

One year on: It will be a long journey for Mosul to recover

Alistair Burt

Arabic press review: Iraqi militia fighters want to back Houthis against Riyadh