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

Paris attacks: Trial begins of suspects in 2015 Islamic State killings

Turkey's CHP opposition party trying to woo Kurdish vote in visit to Erbil

Why the 'war on terror' is not over

David Hearst

US air strikes after 9/11 attacks directly killed up to 48,000 civilians

Iraq signs $27bn oil, gas and solar deal with France's TotalEnergies

Afghanistan: US defeat stems from its ruinous response to 9/11 attacks

Peter Oborne

Islamic State attack kills Iraqi police officers near Kirkuk

Twenty years after 9/11: How the 'war on terror' turned full circle

Islamic State 'Beatle' pleads guilty to murdering US hostages in Syria

Iran's drone mastermind is becoming known as 'the new Soleimani'

US-led global 'war on terror' has killed nearly one million people

Arabic press review: Yemen's Aden faces imminent blackouts amid fuel shortages