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

Iraq political crisis

Muqtada al-Sadr: How one man assumed so much power in Iraq

Iraq political crisis

Sadr followers end protests after cleric calls on them to withdraw

Iraq political crisis

Baghdad rocked by deadly clashes as Sadrist protests spread to south Iraq

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LIVE: Tense calm returns to Baghdad after sit-ins cleared

Iraq political crisis

Sadr supporters run riot triggering clashes in Iraq after cleric's 'retirement' from politics

Silent witnesses: How life under Islamic State impacted Mosul's deaf community

'Painful scene': Iraqi artists denounce display of Abu Ghraib images next to their work at Berlin Biennale

Iraq political crisis

Guns and troops pile into Baghdad's Green Zone as threat of violence looms

Why the Middle East is witnessing a rare moment of regional de-escalation

Ali Bakir

Iraq political crisis

Sadr supporters shut down Iraq's judiciary

Several bodies retrieved from rubble of collapsed shrine in Iraq's Karbala

How the Covid vaccine rollout exposed inequality in the Middle East