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

Islamic State fight each other, try to flee, as Iraq's next big battle looms

UN says 200,000 more people could flee Mosul as fighting intensifies

Turkey Politics

Turkey calls for US anti-IS envoy to be replaced over alleged support for PKK

Chelsea Manning: Seven leaks that rocked the Middle East

Egypt is no longer the heart of the Arab world

Basheer Nafi

Islamic State 'on brink of total defeat' in Mosul, says US commander

Brisk business for Mosul's first post-IS alcohol store

Dozens die in US-led air attacks in Syria and Iraq: Report

US aid to Egypt: Wrong but inevitable

Muhammad Mansour

Another killer solution for Syria: Using one group of terrorists to fight another

Taha Ozhan

Iraq’s Shabaks return to devastated homes in battle against IS

Iraqi anti-corruption activists released after kidnapping