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

Prosecuting Blair over Iraq would be a victory for dictators

James Snell

UK's top lawyer tries to block Iraq war case against Blair

Maliki in Moscow: What Iraq's former premier wants from Russia

Yury Barmin

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr meets Saudi crown prince

UK court blocks bid to prosecute Tony Blair for invasion of Iraq

Blair escapes prosecution for the invasion of Iraq. What now for accountability?

Michael Mansfield and Antonia Benfield

Standoff at Iraqi embassy in Kabul ends with four attackers killed

Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr makes rare visit to Saudi Arabia

An inconvenient truth: IS draws on Islamic sources for its inspiration

Philip Wood

Battle for Mosul: 'We'll probably kill him later. The prisons are full'

US judge halts deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals

'I just want to go home', says German girl who joined IS