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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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45 Dead In Continued Guerrilla War

45 Dead in Continued Guerrilla War Baghdad Pitched Battle Kills 24 AFP reports that violence in Iraq on Sunday left 45 dead in separate incidents. […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq And Vietnam Although Martin Van

Iraq And Vietnam Although Martin Van

Iraq and Vietnam Although Martin van Creveld in the Boston Review is pushing the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam (with Moshe Dayan in Saigon as […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt pulls it all together in his essay on the state of affairs in American Iraq. It is a comprehensive […]

Juan Cole

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Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri and al-Qaeda? Really? I don’t have a dog in the fight about who killed Rafiq Hariri, but I don’t find the case for the […]

Juan Cole

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Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave of Bombings in Middle East (Revised). The continued instability in the Middle East yielded on Saturday a harvest of deadly bombings in the region. […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari: Iraq headed toward Religious Law On the second anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, crowds demonstrated throughout the world. Among the larger […]

Juan Cole

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Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings of US Troops Iraqi Politics Still Unsettled Wire service report that ‘ Insurgents attacked US troops with two suicide car bombs in […]

Juan Cole

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Wolfowitzs Plot To Destroy Opec And_18

Wolfowitzs Plot To Destroy Opec And_18

Wolfowitz’s Plot to Destroy OPEC And Why it was always Ridiculous Joe Conason presents some excellent reasons why Paul Wolfowitz should not head the World […]

Juan Cole

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Poll Shows Bush Popularity On Iraq

Poll Shows Bush Popularity On Iraq

Poll Shows Bush Popularity on Iraq Plummeting A new ABC/Washington Post poll shows the number of Americans who approve of Bush’s handling of Iraq way […]

Juan Cole

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