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

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Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Don’t forget imprisoned scholar Haleh Esfandiari, in Iran. The link is to an article just out in the Chronicle of Higher Education. See […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

The Beginning of the End of Anglo-American Iraq Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 US GIs Killed 16 Shiite Kurds Massacred Suhail: Iraq has 3 million widows *8 US troops were announced killed in Iraq on Saturday. British […]

Juan Cole

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Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright: Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran Robin Wright at the Washington Post has a piece online today on the growing pressure among US academics […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al-Hakim in US for Cancer Treatment Sistani Aide: US not Serious on Terror Militia Rule in Basra Robin Wright reports that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the […]

Juan Cole

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Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh in Prison I copied here last Saturday our MESA letter of protest about the Iranian government’s imprisonment of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari [also spelled […]

Juan Cole

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Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many thanks to readers willing to take the blogads survey. I’m told it isn’t time-consuming. Although I would be blogging anyway, I […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage is “As Bad as Ever”: Shahristani 60 Dead in violence In an interview with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Iraq’s Oil Minister, Hussein […]

Juan Cole

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Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study on Iraq Fragmentation Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University has written a position paper for Chatham House in the UK, spelling out how […]

Juan Cole

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