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

How Saudi Arabia's huge spending will reshape football in the Middle East

Avi Shlaim says he has 'proof of Zionist involvement' in 1950s attack on Iraqi Jews

Greece shipwreck: Hope of finding survivors fades as hundreds feared dead

Scores of people dead and many missing after boat capsizes off Greece

Silvio Berlusconi and the Middle East: Gaddafi, Iraq war and Israel

Row over the Hashd al-Shaabi reveals cracks in Iraq's pro-Iran coalition

Blinken pledges $150m in aid to Syria and Iraq at Saudi meeting

Former Miss Iraq announces run for US Congress

Iraq unveils $17bn transport project linking Asia and Europe

'Another genocide': Christian NGOs in Iraq accused of trying to convert Yazidis

The anonymous Baghdad satirist who gained a cult following in Iraq

How Sadr's foes are trying to suck him back into Iraqi public life