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

Islamic State terrorises Iraqi Christians: 'They told me to spit on the crucifix'

Iraqi forces destroy Mosul car bomb factories

Iraq says air force has hit dozens of IS fighters near Syria border

Air strike kills 55 civilians in western Iraq

IS fighters returning to Europe in the hundreds, says EU report

Battle for Mosul: How IS is making life tough for Iraq’s elite forces

New IS spokesman urges fighters not to flee Mosul, Raqqa

IS calls for attacks on Turkey as Mosul battle grinds on

Mosul residents fear cold and hunger of winter siege

We must not let them drown: Challenging the politics of deterrence

Natalia Paszkiewicz

‘Pieces of wood’: The slave trade, the Zong and the migrant tragedy

Joe Gill

Kurdish authorities harming recovery of Iraq's Yazidis: HRW