Iraq

To secure a ceasefire with Iran, the US must abandon ideological war

Ending the war will require Washington to distance itself from Israel’s influence and the Christian-Zionist ideology driving its policy, and restore geopolitical rationality

Netanyahu rejects the gospel of Christ for the doctrine of Genghis Khan

Soumaya Ghannoushi

American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad

US-Israeli strikes on Iran's oil and gas could poison people and environment for decades

How Spain's memory of Iraq shaped Sanchez's response to war on Iran

Iran's way of warfare is being tested to its limits

Omar Ashour

Iraqi Kurdish commander says there are no plans to invade Iran

Oops, we have wrecked another country

David Hearst

War on Iran: How Israel is demolishing the myth that once shielded it

Gabriel Polley

Iraqi Kurds announce billions of dollars of oil sales

Syria Intervention

US to deploy 'specialised expeditionary' forces to Iraq and Syria

Sunni tribes joining Shia militias as war against IS heats up in Iraq

ANALYSIS: The risks of the coalition's Kurd-heavy anti-IS strategy

Does arming the Kurds mean the West backs forces committing war crimes?

Ian Sinclair

Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’

Nafeez Ahmed

France wrongly accused of bombing school in Iraq’s Mosul 'killing 28 children'

Blaming Islam for ISIS: A convenient lie to prepare us for more war

CJ Werleman

Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards wounded in Syria fight

France, US to scale up campaign against IS in Syria, Iraq

ANALYSIS: Obama and Hollande’s flowery language masks weak strategy

Egypt needs stability based on democracy, says former presidential candidate