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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

03/04/2026 By The Conversation

Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America

Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America

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10 Us Troops Killed Dozens Of Iraqis

10 Us Troops Killed Dozens Of Iraqis

10 US Troops Killed, Dozens of Iraqis While US politicians were mesmerized by the Iraq Study Group report, the Iraqis went on with their bloody […]

Juan Cole

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Arab Reaction To Isg Report Usg Open

Arab Reaction To Isg Report Usg Open

Arab Reaction to the ISG Report The USG Open Source Center translates and analyzes the pan-Arab media on the Baker-Hamilton report: ‘ FYI — Pan-Arab […]

Juan Cole

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Reprint Edn

Reprint Edn

Reprint Edn.: 10 Things Congress Should Demand on Iraq In the light of the issuance of the Iraq Study Group report, I thought readers might […]

Juan Cole

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Regional Conference Prepared Iraqi

Regional Conference Prepared Iraqi

Regional Conference Prepared Iraqi Military to Assume control within a year Gates Confirmed The US now has a secretary of defense who knows that we […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim Us Troops Should Stay Urges

Al Hakim Us Troops Should Stay Urges

Al-Hakim: US Troops Should Stay; Urges harsher Measures against Sunni Guerrillas Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that Iraqi Shiite cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim for the first […]

Juan Cole

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Talabani Hakim Reject Intl Conference

Talabani Hakim Reject Intl Conference

Talabani, Hakim Reject Int’l Conference 9 GIs Killed The US military announced that Sunni Arab guerrillas have killed 9 GIs in Baghdad and al-Anbar over […]

Juan Cole

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Rumsfelds Shocking Memo Over 100 Dead

Rumsfelds Shocking Memo Over 100 Dead

Rumsfeld’s Shocking Memo; Over 100 Dead in Sectarian Violence The NYT has gotten hold of a memo by Donald Rumsfeld detailing options on Iraq. Several […]

Juan Cole

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Bus Stop Massacre Kills 20 Sistani

Bus Stop Massacre Kills 20 Sistani

Bus Stop Massacre Kills 20; Sistani Aide Warns against Violence, Blames Arab T.V. On Saturday morning, an empty fuel trucker slammed into people waiting at […]

Juan Cole

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Dozens Of Bodies In Sinjar And Baghdad

Dozens Of Bodies In Sinjar And Baghdad

Dozens of Bodies in Sinjar and Baghdad 40% Increase in Violent Deaths in November AFP says that political violence left nearly 2000 dead in Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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