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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025:  The US and the Middle East
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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

Juan Cole

The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

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Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

12/28/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

12/28/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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30 Killed 33 Freed In Company Sized

Truck Bombing of Kurdish HQ in Mosul Kills or Injures 45 A recent report on the readiness of Iraqi troops. says that the Iraqi military […]

Juan Cole

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Dems In Congress Seek Withdrawal Saudis

Dems In Congress Seek Withdrawal Saudis

Dems in Congress seek Withdrawal Saudis intrigue against al-Maliki The Democrats are gearing up to try to pass an appropriations measure for Iraq that also […]

Juan Cole

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Bushs Top Ten Mistakes In Iraq During

Bushs Top Ten Mistakes In Iraq During

Bush’s Top Ten Mistakes in Iraq during the Past 4 Years 10. Refusing to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld when his incompetence and maliciousness […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Iraqi Public Wants Us Troops Out Within

Iraqi Public Wants Us Troops Out Within

Iraqi Public Wants US Troops Out within a Year Sunni Parliamentarian Accused of Links to Bombers A poll of Iraqis commission by USA Today and […]

Juan Cole

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March 19 2003 Bushs Address On Iraq

March 19 2003 Bushs Address On Iraq

March 19, 2003: Bush’s Address on Iraq What struck me in looking again at Bush’s address to the American public late on March 19, 2003, […]

Juan Cole

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Renewed Us Anti War Protests Sunday Al

Renewed Us Anti War Protests Sunday Al

Renewed US Anti-War Protests Sunday; Gates: Surge is to Buy Time for Reconciliation; Al-Maliki Cabinet Shuffle Postponed Thousands of antiwar demonstrators came out again on […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Iraq Friday Sermons On Surge Usg Open

Iraq Friday Sermons On Surge Usg Open

Iraq Friday Sermons on ‘Surge’ The USG Open Source Center translates and paraphrases Iraqi Friday prayers sermons, some of which speak of the ongoing “Surge.” […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Kahl Us Military And Counter Insurgency

Kahl Us Military And Counter Insurgency

Kahl: The US Military and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq Professor Colin Kahl of the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota shared the thoughts below […]

Juan Cole

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

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