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

French special forces soldier killed in fight against Islamic State

Iraq PM pledges to take 'necessary measures' ahead of Kurd vote

Turkey extends mandate to use troops abroad, two days before Kurdish vote

Barzani expects no conflict with Baghdad, but no going back for Kurds

Peshmerga '100 percent certain' Baghdad will fight independence

Political divisions among Turkey’s Kurds resurface over referendum

Kurdish vote 'destabilising', UN Security Council warns

The Kurdish independence poll is a KRG elite power grab

MEE correspondent

Iraq's Kirkuk supports independence vote, but not its neighbours

Baghdad, a fog of threats and nerves ahead of Kurdish referendum

Thousands of children in 'extreme danger' in battle for Iraqi town, says charity

Birth of a second Hezbollah? Where Iran stands in a post-war Syria

Shahir Shahidsaless