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

Iranian press review: Media war breaks out over Taliban takeover

Iraq Elections 2021

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis with disabilities deprived of vote in coming election

Restoring the US myth of invincibility through sexual violence

Ahmed D Dardir

'A moral disgrace': Inside one of the world's biggest arms fairs

US spy chief says Yemen, Syria and Iraq pose greater terror threat than Afghanistan

Five people from Afghanistan who shaped Middle Eastern history

Israel's Gantz says Iran giving militias drone training near Isfahan

Iraqi PM Kadhimi becomes first foreign leader to meet Iran's Raisi

Iraqi youth sceptical of proposed re-introduction of military service

Iraq: Drones strike near US forces at Erbil airport

Guantanamo Bay: Sixty-year old Iraqi detainee suffering from paralysis

Iran launches air strikes on Kurdish separatist group in northern Iraq