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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood. In […]

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

08/11/2025 By Global Voices

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

08/11/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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1 Us Soldier Killed 2 Wounded In Mosul

1 Us Soldier Killed 2 Wounded In Mosul

1 US Soldier Killed, 2 Wounded in Mosul Guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill one US soldier and wound 2 others from the 101st […]

Juan Cole

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Al Dawa Party Will Act As Intermediary

Al Dawa Party Will Act As Intermediary

al-Da`wa Party will act as Intermediary for Muqtada The Shiite al-Da`wa Party announced that it would attempt to negotiate a truce between radical young Shiite […]

Juan Cole

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Hilla Demonstrations Point To Problems

Hilla Demonstrations Point To Problems

Hilla Demonstrations Point to problems of Legitimacy Mariam Fam of AP notes that there has been a popular movement of protest against the American-appointed mayor […]

Juan Cole

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Gas And Electricity Shortages Return

Gas And Electricity Shortages Return

Gas and Electricity Shortages Return Glen Carey of USA Today reports that gasoline/ petrol and electricity shortages have returned to Baghdad, raising anxieties among Iraqis […]

Juan Cole

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Controversies About New Security Agency

Controversies About New Security Agency

Controversies about New Security Agency in Iraq In the 1980s, Saddam employed tens of thousands of persons in the Ministry of the Interior (analogous to […]

Juan Cole

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Stages Of American Iraq And Parallels I

Stages Of American Iraq And Parallels I

Stages of American Iraq, and Parallels I was on an Iraq panel at MIT on Friday with Ivo Daalder,, co-author of the just-published America Unbound: […]

Juan Cole

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Igc Considers New Elections And

Igc Considers New Elections And

IGC Considers New Elections and Democratic Trade Unions According to ash-Sharq al-Awsat, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim has revealed that the Interim Governing Council has still not […]

Juan Cole

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Bomb Blast In Baghdad Kills 1 Us

Bomb Blast In Baghdad Kills 1 Us

Bomb blast in Baghdad kills 1 US soldier, 4 Iraqis, wounds 16 Guerrillas set off a bomb in Baghdad as a US military convoy was […]

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Muqtada Threatens General Strike In His

Muqtada Threatens General Strike In His

Muqtada threatens General Strike In his Friday sermon, young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to announce general strike if the US military did not release […]

Juan Cole

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