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

US suspects 4,000 cases of fraud in Iraq refugee resettlement programme

Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories

Arabic press review: Egypt stands to lose 72 percent of farmland over dam

Iraq opens mass grave in Nineveh to identify victims of Islamic State

Iraq: US offers $3m for information on attacks against American targets

Iraqi villagers bear brunt of Turkey’s air strikes in the north

Iraq: Militia leader accused of involvement in killing of activists released from detention

Iraq: Iranian Kurdish refugees say UN asylum process compounds misery

In pictures: Fire tears through Yazidi displacement camp in Iraq

Erdogan says Turkish strike targeted PKK official in Iraq refugee camp

Two drones shot down above Iraqi base housing US troops

Turkey accused of 'stealing' trees in Iraqi Kurdistan logging campaign