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

Sofreh aqd: An inside look at Iranian weddings

Iraq: Five dishes you have to try in Erbil

As America weeps for Ukraine, the loss and grief of Iraqis is forgotten

Nabil Salih

Ramadan 2022: When does it start and everything else you need to know

Counting the cost of the US invasion of Iraq

Iraq political crisis

Iraq's Sadr bets on Ramadan and shifting Kurdish positions to save his project

Russia-Ukraine war: Irish lawmaker calls out Nato ‘hypocrisy’

Iraqi presidential vote delayed again after MPs' no-show

Iraq's Tishreen MPs become kingmakers as Sadr and Maliki court independents

Putin is a war criminal - and so was Madeleine Albright

Jonathan Cook

Iraqi armed groups and police 'kill, abduct, torture and sexually abuse' LGBTQ+ people with impunity

Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, dies aged 84