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The Most American King: Interview  on Jordan with Aaron Magid
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The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid

Marc Martorell Junyent

Interview with Aaron Magid, author of “The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan” – “King Abdullah is likely more beloved in Washington than inside Jordan” […]

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

07/16/2025 By The Conversation

Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

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US Provided Real Time Intelligence for Turkish Strikes on Iraq

US Provided Real Time Intelligence for Turkish Strikes on Iraq

Ann Scott Tyson and Robin Wright of WaPo confirm from Washington sources that the US provided to the Turkish government ‘real time intelligence’ on Kurdish […]

Juan Cole

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Zawahiri: Iraq Main field of Jihad Attacks Iran, Muqtada, Nasrallah

Zawahiri: Iraq Main field of Jihad Attacks Iran, Muqtada, Nasrallah

The USG Open Source Center summarizes the main points in the new video released by al-Qaeda’s number 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Zawahiri identifies Iraq as […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Parliament Condemns Turkey Turkey says US Authorized Air Strikes on PKK

Iraqi Parliament Condemns Turkey Turkey says US Authorized Air Strikes on PKK

The Iraqi parliament on Monday condemned Turkish air strikes on what it said were bases of the Kurdish Workers Party inside Iraqi territory. The parliament […]

Juan Cole

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Rubin on ‘Who is to Blame’ on Afghanistan

Rubin on ‘Who is to Blame’ on Afghanistan

Juan is traveling and will post later on Monday. Until then, have a look at Barnett Rubin’s important essay, “Afghanistan: Who is to Blame?”

Juan Cole

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Siddiqui: Musharraf ‘Defacing’ Pakistan Constitution

Siddiqui: Musharraf ‘Defacing’ Pakistan Constitution

The USG Open Source Center translates from Urdu a critical commentator on Pervez Musharraf’s ‘defacing’ of the Pakistan constitution. Musharraf has lifted the state of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Turkey Bombs N. Iraq; Unpopular British Hand over Security Control in Basra

Turkey Bombs N. Iraq; Unpopular British Hand over Security Control in Basra

In the far north of Iraq, Turkish warplanes bombed villages that its security specialists say were harboring terrorists of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The […]

Juan Cole

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Obama vs. Bush On How Honesty is the Highest form of Leadership

Obama vs. Bush On How Honesty is the Highest form of Leadership

Hillary Clinton fired the co-chair of her New Hampshire campaign, Bill Shaheen, because he speculated that Barack Obama would be attacked by Republicans for admitting […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Kurdish Press Freedoms Curtailed

Kurdish Press Freedoms Curtailed

The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Authority, a part of Iraq, has just passed a very dangerous press law, which has drawn vigorous protests from […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Former US interrogator recounts torture cases in Afghanistan and Iraq

Former US interrogator recounts torture cases in Afghanistan and Iraq

The USG Open Source Center translates an interview in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo with Damien Corsetti, a former private in the US army who […]

Juan Cole

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