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

ANALYSIS: Turkey reconciles with Erbil to maximise military gains

Israel's inside man: How John Bolton sabotaged US foreign policy in Israel's favour

Richard Silverstein

Where the books weren’t burned: Baghdad’s ancient library

Sinjar's Yazidi forces gear up for threatened Turkish invasion

John Bolton’s war: A question of when, not if?

Bill Law

PKK announces withdrawal of 'guerrilla forces' from Iraq's Sinjar

Chemical attacks: How the nightmare of 1988 still haunts an Iraqi town

ANALYSIS: Hubris over Afrin victory could lead to mistakes

Islamic State group takes Damascus area after rebels pull out

For the British political elite, the invasion of Iraq never happened

Mark Curtis

Iraq, 15 years on: A toxic US legacy

Belen Fernandez

Iraqi asylum seeker guilty of London Tube bombing