Iraq

Iraq's first census in decades hailed as 'huge step forward'

While there have been tensions in Kirkuk, Iraq's first full census since 1987 is being seen as a source of pride

US contractor held liable for torture, with jury awarding $42m to Abu Ghraib survivors

Israel's foreign minister calls for ties with Kurds and other minorities in Middle East

US Elections 2024

How is the Middle East reacting to Donald Trump's victory?

Iran-Israel tensions

How Israel's wars and Trump comeback are changing Iran's national security doctrine

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Inside Saudi Arabia

MBC's news chief quits after Saudi channel calls Sinwar and Nasrallah 'terrorists'

David Lammy accused of 'blatant contempt' for Palestinians over genocide comments

Call of Duty: Kuwait bans new Black Ops 6 game featuring Saddam Hussein

Iraq: Officials vow action as Baghdad ranked among most polluted cities on Earth

Art and photography

Picasso and the Middle East: How Arab art embraced Cubism

The Big Picture Podcast

The forgotten history of Arab-Jews

UK acknowledges genocide committed by Islamic State against Yazidis

Turkish drone strike kills four PKK fighters, say Kurdish officials

Why Iraq thinks a plot is fanning the flames of its diplomatic crises

Iraq: Bashar al-Assad’s other vital ally

Christopher Phillips

Iraq: Several thousand protest Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Netflix's The Diplomat: American foreign policy as a dysfunctional marriage

Hamid Dabashi

Is Keir Starmer now Tony Blair’s successor, or Margaret Thatcher’s?

Joe Gill

Iraq tells Swedish ambassador in Baghdad to leave over Quran burning

US bans 14 Iraqi banks in dollar smuggling crackdown: Report