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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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Of Iron Fists and Oil Sabotage Marine Killed in Anbar Guerrillas in Anbar Province killed a Marine on Thursday. US forces clashed with guerrillas in […]

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Violence Allawi Sistani And Elections

Violence Allawi Sistani And Elections

Violence, Allawi, Sistani and Elections Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani continues to be concerned as to whether elections will be held in January in Iraq, and […]

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Iraq Violence Kills At Least 24 Wounds

Iraq Violence Kills At Least 24 Wounds

Iraq Violence Kills at Least 24, Wounds over 100 Sistani Criticizes Election Plans The guerrilla war and American military assertiveness together wrought havoc in several […]

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Cat Stevens Deported I Know That It Is

Cat Stevens Deported I Know That It Is

Cat Stevens Deported I know that it is faintly ridiculous that Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam was deported on Wednesday from the US after the […]

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If America Were Iraq What Would It Be

If America Were Iraq What Would It Be

If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are […]

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The Western Press on Religious Violence in Iraq Howard LaFranchi of the Christian Science Monitor gives further, searching consideration to the mysterious murder of clerics […]

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Bush Taunts Kerry I Just Heard

Bush Taunts Kerry I Just Heard

Bush Taunts Kerry I just heard President Bush taunt John Kerry for suggesting that the US was not safer because Saddam Hussein was deposed, and […]

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Case Of Three Dead Clerics Al Zaman

Case Of Three Dead Clerics Al Zaman

The Case of the Three Dead Clerics Al-Zaman and Al-Jazeerah.net say that two important figures in the Sunni fundamentalist Association of Muslim Scholars [Board of […]

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Bin Laden Doesnt Care Who Wins Remark

Bin Laden Doesnt Care Who Wins Remark

Bin Laden Doesn’t Care Who Wins The remark of Speaker of the House Denis Hastert that al-Qaeda would like to manipulate the US election with […]

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