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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

Juan Cole

The bad news is that in October and November 2025, “the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity

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1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

12/20/2025 By The Conversation

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

12/20/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Iraq: Videotape of Blackwater Attack Jaafari Maneuvers in Najaf

Iraq: Videotape of Blackwater Attack Jaafari Maneuvers in Najaf

Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they have a videotape of the shootings in Nisur Square last Sunday by Blackwater security guards, which shows that they […]

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Iraq
Sistani Aides Killed UIC Unconcerned with Sadrists’ Departure

Sistani Aides Killed UIC Unconcerned with Sadrists’ Departure

AP reports that two more aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani were assassinated on Friday, bringing the total since late August to 5. Some worshippers […]

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Iraq
Allawi Rejects al-Maliki’s charge of Treason US Kidnaps another Iranian from the KRG

Allawi Rejects al-Maliki’s charge of Treason US Kidnaps another Iranian from the KRG

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki slammed his rival, Iyad Allawi of the National Concord Movement, for engaging in secret talks with […]

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Iraq
Republicans vote Down Webb Plan for Troops; Al-Maliki Accuses Blackwater

Republicans vote Down Webb Plan for Troops; Al-Maliki Accuses Blackwater

Iraqi guerrillas killed four US troops on Tuesday. Republican senators succeeded in blocking the Webb plan to give US troops off as much time between […]

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Iraq
Wagner Guest Op-ed: Democrats Should Fund Demobilization

Wagner Guest Op-ed: Democrats Should Fund Demobilization

Guest Op-Ed by David Wagner: “It seems to me that political polarization in Congress prevents action on common sense measures that are needed, regardless of […]

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Iraq
Rice Apologizes to al-Maliki for Blackwater Shootings Was Abu Rishah a Fake?

Rice Apologizes to al-Maliki for Blackwater Shootings Was Abu Rishah a Fake?

McClatchy reports from Baghdad that Iraqi eyewitnesses maintain that Blackwater security guards fired at civilians without provocation on Sunday, in contrast to the company’s own […]

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Iraq
Jihadis Threaten to Kill Leaders of al-Anbar Council

Jihadis Threaten to Kill Leaders of al-Anbar Council

The USG Open Source Center summarizes and partially translates a threat by the ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ [Salafi Jihadis] to kill more members of the […]

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Iraq
Marshall/ Cole interview on Iraq

Marshall/ Cole interview on Iraq

I am interviewed on al-Anbar province at Veracifier by Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo.

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Iraq
Sadrists Demand US Withdrawal UIA asks Sadrists to Rejoin Will Blackwater be Expelled?

Sadrists Demand US Withdrawal UIA asks Sadrists to Rejoin Will Blackwater be Expelled?

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Shiite fundamentalist ruling bloc in the Iraqi parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, has called on the Sadr Movement to […]

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