Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?
Featured

Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, Israel launched the latest of some 300 raids into Syria in the past few months. Some […]

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

08/09/2025 By Juan Cole

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

08/09/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Iraq War
6 Us Troops Killed 8 Injured Or

6 Us Troops Killed 8 Injured Or

6 US Troops Killed, 8 Injured or Sickened Chlorine Poison Gas attacks Kill 8, Sicken 350 Thousands Protest War on 4th Anniversary 6 US troops […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Giving Aid And Comfort To Enemy Plame

Giving Aid And Comfort To Enemy Plame

Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: the Plame Affair Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted destroyed in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Aipac Cool To Cheney Responding To This

Aipac Cool To Cheney Responding To This

AIPAC Cool to Cheney Responding to this IC posting, Ron Kampea kindly writes: I was one of the reporters noting the relatively cool reception for […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
16000 Detainees In Coalition Hands

16000 Detainees In Coalition Hands

16,000 Detainees in Coalition Hands Iraqi Shiites attempt to Regroup 11 detainees in a British jail in south Iraq exchanged clothing with their visitors and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq

Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq

Senate Republicans Defeat Iraq Withdrawal Timetable; 5 US Troops Killed 5 US GIs were announced killed on Thursday. Militiamen or guerrillas killed 4 with a […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Clinton Would Keep Troops In Iraq

Clinton Would Keep Troops In Iraq

Clinton Would Keep Troops in Iraq Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she would keep some US troops in Iraq to fight al-Qaeda, curb […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
4 Us Troops Killed 9 Wounded 1993 Wtc

4 Us Troops Killed 9 Wounded 1993 Wtc

4 US Troops Killed, 9 Wounded 1993 WTC Attack was al-Qaeda, not Saddam A lot of commentators will note that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad has admitted […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Sunni Arab Member Of Parliament

Sunni Arab Member Of Parliament

Sunni Arab Member of Parliament Criticizes al-Maliki Government The USG Open Source Center carries a translation of remarks of Khalaf al-Ulayyan, a member of parliament […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Ic Parodic News Edition Note To Humor

Ic Parodic News Edition Note To Humor

IC Parodic News Edition Note to the humor impaired: Satire follows. Item: US petroleum company Halliburton, which received billions of dollars in no-bid contracts from […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2556
  • Page 2557
  • Page 2558
  • Page 2559
  • Page 2560
  • …
  • Page 3013
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

Climate Crisis

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Popular

  • Christian Nationalism's Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate
  • Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
  • We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
  • Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket
  • FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved