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 forces repel Islamic State offensive south of Mosul

Iraqi girl reunited with family 3 years after abduction by Islamic State

Woman suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraqi market attack claimed by IS

Turkey and Baghdad condemn 'irresponsible' Iraqi Kurdistan referendum

'After IS something will happen': Fear of conflict among victors in Kurdish Iraq

Battle for Mosul: Growing reports of abuse, killing of civilians by Iraqi forces

Iran says Tehran attackers had been to Islamic State bastions Mosul, Raqqa

Iraqi Kurds plan independence referendum on 25 September

The Trump effect: How the political offensive against Qatar started

David Hearst

Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’

Nafeez Ahmed

Jordan repels motorbike attack along Syria border

Iraqi Shia paramilitaries take town west of Mosul from Islamic State