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Iraqi Kurdistan aims at 3 Gigawatts of Solar, as Households and Villages Rush to Rooftop Panels
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Iraqi Kurdistan aims at 3 Gigawatts of Solar, as Households and Villages Rush to Rooftop Panels

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Kurdistan is developing an interest in sustainable energy, despite being an oil exporter via Kirkuk. Solar provides little of […]

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Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain — and Return

Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain — and Return

10/25/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Syria’s new Leader promised Democracy, but excluded Women from Parliamentary Elections

Syria’s new Leader promised Democracy, but excluded Women from Parliamentary Elections

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Islamophobia
What would Martin Luther King Say?  Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America

What would Martin Luther King Say? Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America

The demonstration held on Sunday against the Park 51 Muslim community center in lower Manhattan was an attempt by the right wing to strike at […]

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Iraq
From ’shock and awe’ to ‘advise and assist’ in Iraq

From ’shock and awe’ to ‘advise and assist’ in Iraq

My appearance on the PBS current affairs show Need to Know this weekend with Alison Stewart is now available on the Web. I was discussing […]

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Islamophobia
Dear Rev. Graham: Obama was not born a Muslim and neither is anyone else

Dear Rev. Graham: Obama was not born a Muslim and neither is anyone else

Evangelist (and hateful bigot) Franklin Graham said this weekend that President Obama was ‘born a Muslim’ because, he said, Islam is transmitted through the father […]

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Pakistan
Sindh Cities inundated as Flooding continues; <br/> Fears of advances by al-Qaeda

Sindh Cities inundated as Flooding continues;
Fears of advances by al-Qaeda

Frenetic efforts to repair a 20 foot breach in the barrage guarding the major Sindhi city of Shahdadkot succeeded in keeping the city from being […]

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Afghanistan
Taliban Ambush Kills 30 on Road Crew in Helmand; <br/> 60% of Americans Oppose Afghan War

Taliban Ambush Kills 30 on Road Crew in Helmand;
60% of Americans Oppose Afghan War

Word is trickling out now about a Taliban attack on workers and security guards that killed some 30 persons and wounded 15 others, while yet […]

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Iraq
Cole on PBS ‘Need to Know’

Cole on PBS ‘Need to Know’

I’ll be interviewed by Alison Stewart on the PBS ‘Need to Know’ current affairs program on Friday evening in most markets, though the show may […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraqis differ in Reactions to US Combat Troops' Departure

Iraqis differ in Reactions to US Combat Troops’ Departure

Aswat al-Iraq reports on reactions to the withdrawal of US combat brigades from Iraq in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The head of the […]

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Iraq
Last US Combat Units withdraw from Iraq

Last US Combat Units withdraw from Iraq

The last US combat convoy left Iraq on Thursday, rather some time after George W. Bush declared an end to combat operations in Iraq in […]

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Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

Former US ambassador and perennial angry old crank John Bolton is so upset about the possibility that Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor will soon go live […]

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