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

Anti-IS talks may boost beleaguered Trump team

How can the US recklessly kill civilians in Syria, Iraq and Yemen - and be great again?

Gemma Fox

EXCLUSIVE: Sectarian militias have no place in Iraq, says Muqtada al-Sadr

Baghdad car bomb kills at least 15, says ministry official

Sadr says new US troops 'a target'

Iraqi army nears symbolic Mosul mosque as strike kills foreign militants

Trump, here's a solution for Iraq after the defeat of IS

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi

Iraq wants fewer US troops on territory after Mosul, says PM

Iran's sectarian wars must be confronted, but not with more of the same

Basheer Nafi

Mosul battle reaching final stages, says Iraqi PM

24 refugees later, Berlin 'Samaritan' tells fellow Germans: Don't be afraid

ANALYSIS: Sinjar becomes proxy battle amid rising Kurdish tensions