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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
Children

17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

Juan Cole

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

02/27/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Waiting for ICE

Waiting for ICE

02/27/2026 By Tomdispatch

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Immigration
Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

ICE agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Juan Cole

Dissent
Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

It is the result of a decades-long erosion of belief in the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic.

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Staff faces risks, cuts, after Israel revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations for not complying with new registration rules

Prism

Afghanistan
Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan

Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan

Andersen said, “I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
“We Ran from Monsters:” Germany now deporting Yazidi Refugees from ISIL to Limbo

“We Ran from Monsters:” Germany now deporting Yazidi Refugees from ISIL to Limbo

Germany, home to the largest Yazidi diaspora outside Iraq, initially granted protection to those fleeing IS.

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Order makes clear that the administration’s ideological deportation policy must stop, Knight Institute says

Middle East Studies Association

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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability

Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria

Juan Cole

Israel
Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

the massive ecological destruction brought to Lebanon as a result of the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel

The Conversation

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