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

Will Trump agree to the Pentagon's permanent war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?

Gareth Porter

Dozens dead in wave of car bomb attacks in Baghdad

Iran-backed Iraqi force takes IS villages on Syria border

Iraq's Shia forces advance towards Syrian border

Civilian deaths 'fact of life' in war on IS, says Pentagon chief

Iraq forces launch broad attack on IS holdouts in Mosul

Manchester attack: Corbyn links British wars to rising threat of terrorism

RAF bomb scrawled with 'Love from Manchester' sparks controversy

How Corbyn, May and Farron voted on foreign policy

Mosul air attack killed at least 105, say US commanders

Bush, Obama and Trump have discovered the secret of perpetual motion: It's called the war on terror

CJ Werleman

Nato to join coalition against Islamic State, says chief