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

Possible return of Iraq's Maliki stirs spectres of past chaos and Trump threats

Iran-Israel tensions

Iran's battle for survival is the Arab world's fight too

David Hearst

US-Iran Tensions

Iran-aligned militias threaten retaliatory strikes, but will they follow through?

Syria after Assad

Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State detainees transferred from Syria

Syria after Assad

Syria after Assad: How the YPG's separatist dream finally died

Ali Bakir

US threatened to block Iraq from its Federal Reserve deposits over Iran-aligned politicians

International law

How the US system of world dominance is consuming itself

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Venezuela crisis

13 instances when the US brought about regime change

Israel's genocide in Gaza

International law died in Gaza. Why is the world mourning it in Greenland?

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Venezuela crisis

With Maduro's abduction, the 'rules-based world order' is officially dead

Marco Carnelos

By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh could reshape the Middle East

David Hearst