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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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Muqtadas Newspaper Closed 1000

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Muqtada’s Newspaper Closed, 1000 Demonstrate AP is reporting that the Coalition Provisional Authority has closed the weekly newspaper of radical young Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, […]

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Clarke Difference Between Clinton And

Clarke: Difference Between Clinton and Bush For readers who don’t scroll all the way down, just wanted to draw your attention to my posting late […]

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Mosul Barwari Escapes Assassination Us

Mosul Barwari Escapes Assassination Us

Mosul: Barwari Escapes Assassination; US MPs wounded, Western Security Guards Killed Public Works Minister Nasrin Barwari narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while traveling to Mosul […]

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Sistani Will Not Launch Street Protests

Sistani Will Not Launch Street Protests

Sistani will not Launch Street Protests: Aide az-Zaman/AFP: Refuting reports appearing Saturday in the Kuwaiti press, an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Najaf […]

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Israeli Intelligence Blasted By Knesset

Israeli Intelligence Blasted By Knesset

Israeli Intelligence Blasted by the Knesset over Iraq Failure A subcommittee of the Israeli Parliament has issued a report sharply critical of Israeli intelligence failures […]

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Difference Between Clinton And Bush

Difference Between Clinton And Bush

The Difference between Clinton and Bush: The Millennium Plot More on the Clarke conroversy: The pundits and politicians who keep saying that Clinton’s anti-terrorism policies […]

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Sistani Aide Denounces Interim

Sistani Aide Denounces Interim

Sistani Aide Denounces Interim Constitution Reuters is reporting that Kuwaiti papers on Saturday discussed the Friday sermon of Muhammad Baqir al-Muhri, a lieutenant of Grand […]

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Iraqi Oil Exports Delayed From Both

Iraqi Oil Exports Delayed From Both

Iraqi Oil Exports delayed from both North and South AFP reports delays in Iraq oil exports in both the north and the south of the […]

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Death Toll From Two Days Of Attacks In

Death Toll From Two Days Of Attacks In

Death Toll from Two days of Attacks in Iraq is 21 AP reports that guerrillas fired rockets into the municipal building in Mosul on Saturday, […]

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