Iraq

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Why the Mecca Agreement has given the UAE-Israel alliance the jitters

With their destructive wars, Netanyahu and Trump have brought the Gulf to the brink of destruction - the Mecca pact represents rightful pushback for their recklessness
War on Iran
Iran warns enemies to 'anticipate strategic surprises' as it shifts from a defensive stance
War on Iran
How a pragmatic axis could reshape the Middle East
Marco Carnelos
Kurds
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
Inside UAE
Has the UAE's meteoric rise reached its limit?
Ahmed Mawlana
War on Iran
US-Saudi strikes test Iraq's balancing act between Riyadh and Tehran
Inside Iraq
Jack Letts appeals for repatriations from Iraq in 'out of the blue' phone call to parents
War on Iran
Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up?
Kurds
Turkey urges Iran to halt attacks on Kurdish groups
Inside Iraq
Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr condemns attacks by pro-Iranian factions on Saudi Arabia
Islamic State
Palestinians fleeing Islamic State take refuge in northern Iraq
Media
IS barbarity and execution movies
Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini
Human Rights
ISIS's sexual barbarity is not the exception, but the rule in war
CJ Werleman
Iraq War
Iraqi Kurds confine thousands of Arabs in ‘security zones’
Islamic State
How the West's campaign against IS lets the region off the hook
Women
Iraq’s traumatised women seek Botox as alternative to therapy
Human Rights
Knowing too much: My disastrous Syria trial
Moazzam Begg
Islamic State
Obama hails Qatar as 'strong partner' against Islamic State
Islamic State
Peshmerga and Iraqi forces step up attacks on IS militants
Diplomacy
Making sense of a senseless war
Ghada Ageel
Religion
The Chapel Hill murders: The beast of New Atheism?
CJ Werleman
Islamic State
Obama’s admission not enough: US spin on Middle East violence must change
Ramzy Baroud