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

Pegasus spyware

France to probe reports Macron's phone number targeted by Morocco in Pegasus spyware scandal

Iraq: Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly bombing on eve of Eid

Iraq: Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly blast at Baghdad market

Iraqi prime minister says Hisham al-Hashimi's killers arrested

Water shortage prompts protests in Iran's restive southwest

'We are struggling to remove the bodies': Nasiriyah reeling after Covid hospital fire

Iraq: Dozens killed in second Covid-19 hospital fire in months

At least 92 killed in second Iraq Covid-19 hospital fire in months

Arabic press review: Drug offences account for 65 percent of Kuwait crime

In Baghdad, the streets are littered with the memories of our dead

Nabil Salih

Missing Iraqi journalist appears with signs of torture, taken to Baghdad hospital

Iraq: Four years after fall of Islamic State, Mosul's reconstruction slowly continues