Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
Featured

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Iraq
Turkey fears fallout from Russian strikes in Syria

Turkey fears fallout from Russian strikes in Syria

Euractiv | – – Turkey will not allow “terror to take root” or “fait accompli situations” next to its borders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said […]

contributors

Iraq
The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq

The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq

Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – One of the more unusual, grass roots groups in Iraq today is Real Sciences. They are […]

contributors

Arab Americans
Palestine – The Exception To Free Speech In The U.S.?"

Palestine – The Exception To Free Speech In The U.S.?”

AJ+ | (Video News Report) – – “University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human-rights advocacy in the U.S., but a new report by […]

contributors

Republican Party
Kathleen Turner:  The Real Target of the Planned Parenthood Attacks

Kathleen Turner: The Real Target of the Planned Parenthood Attacks

By Kathleen Turner | (Otherwords.org) “The leading GOP candidates have aligned themselves with a platform based on endangering women’s health care access. In the first […]

contributors

Bashar al-Assad
Deal with Saudis?  Why does the US care if Russia bombs al-Qaeda and its Allies in Syria?

Deal with Saudis? Why does the US care if Russia bombs al-Qaeda and its Allies in Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama on Friday pledged not to turn Syria into an arena for a proxy war […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
Can anti-Muslim Bigotry Help Donald Trump Or Ben Carson Win The Republican Race?

Can anti-Muslim Bigotry Help Donald Trump Or Ben Carson Win The Republican Race?

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Donald Trump may still lead the Republican polls, but Ben Carson is now only a point behind. […]

contributors

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Elite Special Forces led in Recovering most of Kunduz from Taliban

Afghanistan’s Elite Special Forces led in Recovering most of Kunduz from Taliban

By Frud Bezhan | (RFE/RL) | – – Afghanistan’s much-maligned security forces were facing their greatest challenge yet in trying to retake a key northern […]

contributors

African-Americans
Alabama Requires Photo IDs for Voting, Then Shutters DMV Offices in Black Counties

Alabama Requires Photo IDs for Voting, Then Shutters DMV Offices in Black Counties

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “The ‘decision to cut out ID services to almost all counties with a majority […]

contributors

Featured
Mercer, targeting Christians, kills 1/3 the annual gunshot death toll in England

Mercer, targeting Christians, kills 1/3 the annual gunshot death toll in England

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The shooter at Umpqua Community college in Roseberg, Oregon, Chris Harper Mercer, had three hand guns, […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1560
  • Page 1561
  • Page 1562
  • Page 1563
  • Page 1564
  • …
  • Page 2995
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Despite Iran, Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue, killing Dozens

International Middle East Media Center

Iran

Will Iran reply to Israeli Attacks with “War of Attrition?” Will its Nuclear Red Line Hold?

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Featured

Israel’s Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations

Juan Cole

Congress

Threat to Rule of Law: Sen. Padilla thrown to Ground, Cuffed at Noem DHS Press Conference

Common Dreams

Popular

  • Iran's Hypersonic Missiles Hit Israeli Refinery, Military Sites, as Israel does the same to Tehran
  • An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender
  • Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
  • Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major War – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?
  • American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved