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 Tik-Tok star shot dead outside home in Baghdad

One killed in blast in Iraqi military base housing pro-Iran Popular Mobilisation Forces

Who is Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - and why does he matter?

Iran-Israel tensions

Only a grand bargain in the Middle East can avert regional war

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Iran-Israel tensions

How Iranian attacks on Israel redefined the Middle East conflict landscape

Omar Ashour

Two Iraqis accused over Islamic State's Yazidi genocide arrested in Germany

Top Iraqi militant leader killed in Islamic State attack in Syria

Biden and Trump are two sides of the same murderous coin

Hamid Dabashi

Moscow attack: Will Russia and Turkey intensify the fight against IS-K?

Levent Kemal

Stranded Iraqi mother sues American government for denying her entry to US

Has the PKK acquired kamikaze drones to hit Turkish aircraft?

Victoria Nuland: Farewell to the queen of US foreign policy disasters

Marco Carnelos