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

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi army storms airport and military base

British IS bomber's actions not explained by time in Guantanamo

Moazzam Begg

Hipsters storm Iraq's Erbil, but all in the best possible taste

British anti-terror policy 'failed to stop' UK-born IS suicide attacker

Syrians face toxic time-bomb of radiation, poison and pollution

Another US-Israel parallel? Breaking up families for no good reason

Sawsan Zaher

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State near city's west side

US 'not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil', says defence secretary

Iraq takes villages from IS and nears airport in west Mosul assault

'Race against clock' to prepare for exodus from west Mosul advance

Leftover Islamic State IED kills three child shepherds in Iraq

IS rapes and tortures Sunni women too: Report