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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

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh

Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh

Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh A. Jabar, an Iraqi intellectual resident in Beirut who has been a leading force in promoting a democratic intellectual culture in […]

Juan Cole

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Battle For Baghdad Us Troops Clashed

Battle For Baghdad Us Troops Clashed

Battle for Baghdad US troops clashed with the Mahdi Army of clerical nationalist Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City Monday morning. A car bombing of a […]

Juan Cole

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Wiping Off Face Of Map

Wiping Off Face Of Map

Wiping off the Face of the Map (Reprint) This bothered enough of the right people that I thought I’d reprint from Saturday. Note for the […]

Juan Cole

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One Ring To Rule Them Wholesale

One Ring To Rule Them Wholesale

One Ring to Rule Them The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb […]

Juan Cole

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Lebanon War Grinds On Despite Un

Lebanon War Grinds On Despite Un

Lebanon War Grinds on Despite UN Diplomacy On Sunday morning, “Six civilians were killed when an air-to-ground missile hit a house in the village of […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings In Baqubah Ambush Near Kirkuk

Bombings In Baqubah Ambush Near Kirkuk

Bombings in Baqubah, Ambush Near Kirkuk Reuters details guerrilla violence on Saturday (and late Friday. An army checkpoint sprayed with fire, killing 5 soldiers, near […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Bombers Hit Christian Areas

Israeli Bombers Hit Christian Areas

Israeli Bombers Hit Christian Areas Israeli Massacre of Syrian Workers, Other Civilians Death Toll of 38 Courtesy the Daily Star The Daily Star reports: “Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Of Sadrists Rally For

Thousands Of Sadrists Rally For

Thousands of Sadrists Rally for Hizbullah in Baghdad Guerrilla Uprising in Mosul Some 100,000 Sadrists rallied against Israel’s war on Lebanon [Ar.] in Sadr City […]

Juan Cole

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Israelis Kill 7 Civilians In Massive

Israelis Kill 7 Civilians In Massive

Israelis Kill 7 Civilians in Massive Air Raids on Beirut, South, Baalbak Hizbullah Rockets Kill 8 Civilians in Israel Israel resumed a heavy bombardment of […]

Juan Cole

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