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

US coalition says IS command center destroyed in Mosul

Young white men are being radicalised. It's time to talk about it

Mat Nashed

US Pentagon confirms it used depleted uranium in Syria

Islamic State claims third deadly Baghdad bombing in three days

It's the end of IS as we know it - but this is just the beginning

Tania Ildefonso Ocampos

Dozens killed and wounded in Sadr City truck bombing

Trump eyes Petraeus, Harward, Kellogg to replace Flynn as security adviser

Trump's Valentine: From the White House to IS, with love

David Hearst

Hezbollah's war in Aleppo: Victory at any cost, even to civilians

Former Nineveh governor plans return to Mosul despite arrest warrant

IS leaders hit in Iraq air attack, but Baghdadi fate unknown

VIDEO: Iraqi Christian militia reportedly threaten to ethnically cleanse Sunni Arabs