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 victims suffer as evidence of Iraq chemical attacks grows

Mosul: Iraqi forces have tortured and killed villagers, say rights groups

Islamic State accused of using chemical weapons in northern Iraq

Trump and the decline and fall of the West

David Hearst

US admits scores of civilians killed in anti-IS air strikes

America's wars in Syria and Iraq are dangerous and shortsighted

Basheer Nafi

Common sense returns: MPs rip apart UK policy towards political Islam

Peter Oborne

UK 'political Islam' report: The main findings

British special forces in Iraq presented with a 'kill or capture' list of UK nationals

Iraqi Peshmerga storm IS-held town of Bashiqa

Now we have hundreds of oppressors: Iraq's false democracy

Ahmed Twaij

Trump vs Clinton: What would they do to the Middle East?

Richard Falk