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

Dangerous Iranophobia: Trump edges towards his own 'axis of evil' moment

Jonathan Steele

After years of silence under IS, music is back in Mosul

Syrian army says Islamic State's 'minister of war' killed

Iraq orders investigation into reported abuses in Mosul battle

Syrian Kurds seek alliance with Baghdad to end isolation

Thanks for visiting, Donald. Now show us your real intentions

Basheer Nafi

Jeremy Bowen: Not our man in Southwest Asia - or the Middle East

Arzu Merali

'We completely lost contact': Iraqis flee IS-held town the world forgot

Hezbollah faces fresh US sanctions - but they may cripple Lebanon

Makram Rabah

IS-claimed suicide bombings kill 35 in Iraq: Officials

Mourning, fear after death of Iraqi Kurdish opposition leader

Iraqi child singer flees Baghdad: 'I love Iraq, I don’t want to leave’