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

Key Middle East takeaways from US military budget

Bereaved Iraqis receive bodies of 16 killed in Channel disaster

Young Yazidi survivor shares her story

Manslaughter charges filed against Britain and France over channel crossing deaths

No church, no community, no future spouses for Sinjar’s only Christian returnees

US forces' non-withdrawal gives Iran-backed factions new life in Iraq

Iraq Elections 2021

Iraq: The rise of the rival Sadrists

Tamer Badawi

First French national dies in Syrian camp due to health complications

Iran appears to blame Saudi Arabia after repatriated Yemen envoy dies of Covid-19

Arab Spring: Why western narratives still miss the point

Miriyam Aouragh

Outpouring of solidarity for Iraq acid attack victim targeted after marriage offer

The hounding of Julian Assange leaves honest journalism with no refuge

Jonathan Cook