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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

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Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni

Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni Guerrillas now Mainly fight Shiites McClatchy reports that Mahdi Army militiamen in Baghdad have adopted a low profile as they […]

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If Shoe Were On Other Foot Europeans

If Shoe Were On Other Foot Europeans

If the Shoe were on the other Foot Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves […]

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Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts at Marginalizing Carter Intensify Fourteen members of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over former president Jimmy Carter’s book,”Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” AP […]

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Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said to Have Pledged Mahdi Crackdown Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret […]

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Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole in Salon: Did the US just Provoke Iran? My article, “Did the US Just Provoke Iran,” about the Irbil attack and other US-Iranian tensions […]

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Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens Terrorists fired a rocket from across the street into the US embassy in Athens on Friday morning. The […]

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Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In

Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In

US Forces Storm Iranian Consulate in Irbil The US military stormed the Iranian consulate in the northern Iraq Kurdistan city of Irbil on Thursday. Irbil […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Sends Gis To His Private

Bush Sends Gis To His Private

Bush Sends GIs to his Private Fantasyland To listen to Bush’s speech on Wednesday, you would imagine that al-Qaeda has occupied large swathes of Iraq […]

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Groundhog Day In Purple Heart

Groundhog Day In Purple Heart

Groundhog Day in Purple Heart Boulevard 50 Dead in Clashes, 46 Bodies Found US and Iraqi forces fought a significant street battle at Haifa Street […]

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