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Four Decades of War between Iran and America
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Four Decades of War between Iran and America

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A morose anniversary passed this month for Iranians, as it has been more than thirty-five years […]

EU: Suspend Trade Agreement with Israel (HRW)

EU: Suspend Trade Agreement with Israel (HRW)

07/07/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!

Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!

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Bombings kill 46 people in 2 Pakistan cities

Bombings kill 46 people in 2 Pakistan cities

Bombings kill 46 people in 2 Pakistan cities | Top AP Stories | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle The market that was struck in Lahore, in […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Questions about Climate Change on the Eve of Copenhagen

Top Ten Questions about Climate Change on the Eve of Copenhagen

Is the earth’s climate warming? Indisputably. Has the pumping of vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by human beings since the beginning of […]

Juan Cole

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Karzai: Talk to Mullah Omar; Mutwakkil: Taliban would Break with al-Qaeda; Indo-Pak Rivalry in Afghanistan

Karzai: Talk to Mullah Omar; Mutwakkil: Taliban would Break with al-Qaeda; Indo-Pak Rivalry in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the United States to back talks between his government and Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Former Taliban foreign […]

Juan Cole

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Silverman: Iraqi Electoral Law Passes but Dangers Loom

Silverman: Iraqi Electoral Law Passes but Dangers Loom

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment: Politics and Politicking: Iraqi Elections, the Failure of Reconciliation, and the Consolidation of Power […]

Juan Cole

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US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Taliban dismiss Operation Cobra's Anger as unimportant; Gates: US has Lost Track of Usamah

US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan; Taliban dismiss Operation Cobra’s Anger as unimportant; Gates: US has Lost Track of Usamah

A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the US continued a new operation, Cobra’s Anger, in Helmand Province, announcing […]

Juan Cole

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Two Extremists Attack Rawalpindi Mosque, Kill 40, wound Nearly 100

Two Extremists Attack Rawalpindi Mosque, Kill 40, wound Nearly 100

The Taliban Movement of Pakistan, headquartered in South Waziristan, struck at Rawalpindi again on Friday. Two militants scaled a ladder to drop into a mosque […]

Juan Cole

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OSC: Pakistani Editorials on Obama AfPak Policy

OSC: Pakistani Editorials on Obama AfPak Policy

The USG Open Source Center rounds up Pakistani Urdu editorials concerning President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan policy. Pakistan: Urdu Press Roundup on Barack Obama’s New […]

Juan Cole

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Bin Laden Said in Afghanistan; Pakistanis complain that Obama 'Kept them in the Dark'

Bin Laden Said in Afghanistan; Pakistanis complain that Obama ‘Kept them in the Dark’

A Taliban guerrilla in Pakistani custody insists that he met Bin Laden in the mountainous province of Ghazni inside Afghanistan. The allegation is plausible. The […]

Juan Cole

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Carter: Soviets "attempting to conquer the fiercely independent Muslim people of that country"

Carter: Soviets "attempting to conquer the fiercely independent Muslim people of that country"

Jimmy Carter, Speech on Afghanistan (January 4, 1980), warning “Fifty thousand heavily armed Soviet troops have crossed the border and are now dispersed throughout Afghanistan, […]

Juan Cole

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