Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

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

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

Juan Cole

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

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

01/23/2026 By The Conversation

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

01/23/2026 By William D. Hartung

More Stories

Islamophobia
Kurashige:  The Islamic Center and the “Pearl Harbor” Analogy

Kurashige: The Islamic Center and the “Pearl Harbor” Analogy

Scott Kurashige writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: In May 2007, George W. Bush welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to the White House, hosting […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Islamophobe Slasher taunted Cabbie with Rightwing Talking Points before Stabbing Him

Islamophobe Slasher taunted Cabbie with Rightwing Talking Points before Stabbing Him

Amy Goodman interviews a close friend of stabbing victim Ahmad Sharif on Michael Enright’s attack on him. Enright asked a lot of questions, including whether […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Maddow on Manhattan Mosque

Maddow on Manhattan Mosque

Rachel Maddow talks to Sohail Khan of the Conservative Inclusion Coalition about the most embarrassing non-Justin Bieber related obsession of today, the rightwing campaign against […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police

64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police

On Wednesday, the Sunni Arab guerrilla insurgency of Iraq demonstrated it is alive and able to plan and carry out a nation-wide set of terrorist […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

What appears to be a Taliban poison-gas attack has sickened 60 girls at a school in Kabul, though most were quickly discharged from hospital and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nuclear engineer Behrad Nakhai writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment A brief overview of Bushehr nuclear power plant startup (Simplified) Finally, nuclear fuel […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie

Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie

It wasn’t the 21-year-old Michael Enright who drunkenly slashed his New York city cab driver after asking ‘Are you Muslim?’ It was the Republican National […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Matthews Takes Down Lazio over Half-Truths and Scapegoating of Muslims

Matthews Takes Down Lazio over Half-Truths and Scapegoating of Muslims

Chris Matthews of Hardball takes down New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for his scapegoating of Muslims and aggressive, manipulative tactics, suggesting that the meanness […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Anzalone: From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to <i>Jihadi</i> Journalism in Somalia

Anzalone: From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to Jihadi Journalism in Somalia

Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment– which is particularly timely given the bloody attack by fundamentalist gunmen on a Mogadishu hotel, […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2319
  • Page 2320
  • Page 2321
  • Page 2322
  • Page 2323
  • …
  • Page 3072
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

A Triple Entente? Türkiye interested in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Middle East Monitor

Dissent

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

The Conversation

Donald Trump

Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Popular

  • Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast
  • Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
  • Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)
  • Trump's Comic Book Foreign Policy
  • Trump's Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved