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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
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While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

Neil Thompson

Beijing raised its profile at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Council summit of non-Western countries just by providing a forum. London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

09/11/2025 By Juan Cole

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

09/11/2025 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Merry Christmas Some Iraq Christianity

Merry Christmas Some Iraq Christianity

Merry Christmas: Some Iraq Christianity Links In honor of Christmas, I include some links about Iraq’s Christians. For the history of Iraqi Christianity click here. […]

Juan Cole

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Sunnis Gunned Down At Mosque Specter Of

Sunnis Gunned Down At Mosque Specter Of

Sunnis Gunned Down at Mosque: Specter of Sectarian Warfare Raised Al-Hayat: “Not even a week has passed since the Shiite and Sunni clerics issued a […]

Juan Cole

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Two Students Injured In Ethnic Protests

Two Students Injured In Ethnic Protests

Two Students Injured in Ethnic Protests in Kirkuk al-Hayat, Tass: Student leaders in Kirkuk said that two Arab students were wounded Wednesday in confrontations with […]

Juan Cole

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Riots Between Kurds And Turkmen And

Riots Between Kurds And Turkmen And

Riots between Kurds and Turkmen and Arabs in Kirkuk The 5 Kurdish members of the Interim Governing Council have called for Mosul and Diyala province […]

Juan Cole

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3 Us Troops Killed One Wounded Judge

3 Us Troops Killed One Wounded Judge

3 US Troops Killed, One Wounded; Judge, Police Killed in North Reuters reports Guerrillas near Samarra detonated a powerful roadside bomb at a passing US […]

Juan Cole

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Bomb Found In Home Of Al Hakim On

Bomb Found In Home Of Al Hakim On

Bomb Found in Home of al-Hakim On Monday, a bomb was found in the home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite cleric who is December’s […]

Juan Cole

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Nelson We Cannot Afford To Lose Peace

Nelson We Cannot Afford To Lose Peace

Nelson: We cannot Afford to Lose the Peace; Northern Ireland Analogy Fraser Nelson has written a long post mortem in The Scotsman on all the […]

Juan Cole

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2 Us Troops Killed In Baghdad 2 Wounded

2 Us Troops Killed In Baghdad 2 Wounded

2 US Troops Killed in Baghdad, 2 Wounded A roadside bomb killed two US troops in Baghdad, along with a civilian translator, and wounded two […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani On Elections In Interview With

Sistani On Elections In Interview With

Sistani on Elections In an interview with the Baghdad daily az-Zaman, a spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said that he expects his negotiations with […]

Juan Cole

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