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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

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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Mahdi Army Evicted In Diwaniyah

Mahdi Army Evicted In Diwaniyah

Mahdi Army Evicted in Diwaniyah Sistani Reassures Kurds Iraqi National Guards evicted Mahdi Army fighters from a building that they had occupied in Diwaniyah on […]

Juan Cole

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Haug Interview With Cole Rob Haugs

Haug Interview With Cole Rob Haugs

Haug Interview with Cole Rob Haug’s interview of me for the University of Michigan publication, Michigan Today, is now on the Web.

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Allawi Accused Of Murdering Prisoners

Allawi Accused Of Murdering Prisoners

Allawi Accused of Murdering Prisoners Paul McGeough, Chief Sydney Morning Herald Correspondent, in Baghdad reports that eyewitnesses are saying Iyad Allawi personally executed several prisoners […]

Juan Cole

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32 Killed In Separate Incidents Dozens

32 Killed In Separate Incidents Dozens

32 Killed in Separate Incidents, Dozens Wounded Foreign Ministry Security Chief Assassinated Wire services report that 32 Iraqis died in violence on Thursday. Guerrillas assassinated […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Boys Sodomized At Abu Ghuraib

Iraqi Boys Sodomized At Abu Ghuraib

Iraqi Boys Sodomized at Abu Ghuraib: Hersh Sy Hersh, the journalist who broke the Abu Ghuraib prison torture scandal, told an American Civil Liberties Union […]

Juan Cole

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Some 22 Killed Dozens Wounded In

Some 22 Killed Dozens Wounded In

Some 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Bloody Day in Iraq

Juan Cole

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How Clean Has Blair Come Although John

How Clean Has Blair Come Although John

How Clean has Blair Come? Although John Edwards argued Wednesday that President Bush had not taken responsibility for the intelligence failures about Iraqi weapons of […]

Juan Cole

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Sadrs Mahdi Army Regrouping Ann Scott

Sadrs Mahdi Army Regrouping Ann Scott

Sadr’s Mahdi Army Regrouping Ann Scott Tyson of the Christian Science Monitor has a fine piece today on how Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia is regrouping and […]

Juan Cole

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American Islam David Crumm Religion

American Islam David Crumm Religion

American Islam David Crumm, religion correspondent of the Detroit Free Press, has written a highly significant portrait of Sheikh Hasan Qazwini, a key Shiite cleric […]

Juan Cole

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