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

Iraqi and Kurdish forces exchange artillery, rocket fire near Kirkuk

Iraqi forces seize 'vast areas' of Kirkuk province as Kurds withdraw

Iraqi army takes key oil fields in Kirkuk as city captured from Kurds

Iraqi-backed Yazidi group takes over Sinjar after Kurdish pullout

Iraq-KRG escalation: How did we get here?

Basheer Nafi

Iraq says Kurds have brought in PKK fighters in 'declaration of war'

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reject Iraqi warning as deadline passes

Iraqi troops in armed standoff with Kurdish forces in Kirkuk

Kurd fighters mobilise as Iraq denies launching Kirkuk operation

Catalans and Kurds: Different worlds, same dreams of independence

Iraqis angered by prospect of disputed areas joining Kurdistan

Iraq PM denies attack plan as tensions rise with Kurds