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

Barbed-wire borders in the Middle East

The danger of conflating migrant smuggling with human trafficking

Natalia Paszkiewicz

Iraqi brothers smuggled to Greece wore burqas to escape IS

Doctors Without Borders to open refugee camp in France

Bulgaria stops 100 migrants seeking new EU route at Greek border

Unleashing the untameable monster: Iraqi bill will only inflame sectarianism

Sharif Nashashibi

Mosul: Thousands killed since Iraq launched assault

US-led coalition admits 54 civilian deaths in Syria, Iraq strikes

Mosul faces 'catastrophe' as water cut for 500,000 people

Broken faith, broken promises: Turkey's ties with the West at rock bottom

Basheer Nafi

Once they have defeated IS, Iraqi militias will not go away

Gareth Browne

OPEC begins debate on oil cuts amid deep disagreement