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

'Swinging into action:' The Saudi Arabian pipeline designed to bypass Hormuz

US air defence systems intercepting attacks on Iranian Kurdish groups

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen

Jonathan Cook

UK says drone attack on Cyprus base was not launched from Iran

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran

David Hearst

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

European gas prices soar as Iran strikes close Saudi and Qatari oil and LNG sites

Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Obituary: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and dominant political figure

With Khamenei's killing, US-Iran relations have crossed a threshold. What next?

Elijah J Magnier

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