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

Iraq will get $1.5bn in aid from the World Bank

Bombs kill seven near Iranian Kurdish party headquarters in Iraq

The assassination of Russia's ambassador and the future of Ankara-Moscow ties

David Barchard

Failing state: how IS group's power and territory has declined

Meet the US volunteers treating patients at a front line clinic in Mosul

Syrian UN ambassador promotes Iraq photo as Syrian army in Aleppo

What I saw in Mosul: 'Here, there is no hope, no water, no food'

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

IS making 'military grade' weapons in Mosul factories

Michael Flynn: A combustive cocktail of ignorance and arrogance

Azzam Tamimi

Islamic State hits Fallujah with suicide car bombs that kill eight people

Why Trump should cooperate with the Iran-Russia coalition to defeat IS

Kayhan Barzegar

US defence chief in Iraq to review Mosul op