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

'I think there will be war': Iraqi Kurds fear conflict after referendum

Netanyahu: Israel supports Iraqi Kurd independence

The Kurdish referendum threatens to explode the region's struggle over nationalism

Basheer Nafi

Iraq MPs declare Kurdish independence vote 'unconstitutional'

Islamic State wives, stuck in legal limbo, demand return to home countries

Iraq's Turkmen, the refugees created and forgotten by everyone

The Turkmen of Iraq: Between a rock and a hard place

Turkmen caught between IS, Assad and Russian intervention

'No childhood anymore': Raqqa's kids haunted by IS rule, coalition bombings

Bell Pottinger UAE looking to go its own way after South Africa race row

Freedom in the Middle East: There are still reasons to be positive

Rayan El-Amine

UK to double armed drone fleet in deal for US-made 'Protector'