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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard
Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

Saudi Arabia: Executions Surge in bid to Crush Dissent (HRW)

08/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

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Nightline On Iraq 11 24 Those Of You In

Nightline on Iraq 11-24 Those of you in North America who can stay up late may want to watch Nightline tonight. It is on the […]

Juan Cole

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Shaping Iraqi Electorate Election Now

Shaping Iraqi Electorate Election Now

Shaping the Iraqi Electorate The election now envisaged by the Americans in Iraq this spring will not be a democratic, one person one vote, affair. […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqizing Security Al Hayat Reports

Iraqizing Security Al Hayat Reports

Iraqizing Security Al-Hayat reports that the US is pressuring the Interim Governing Council to speed up the transfer of responsibility for security to the Iraqi […]

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Us Arrests Newspaper Editor Us Forces

US arrests Newspaper Editor The US forces in Mosul have arrested Dhunun Yunis, the editor in chief of a local weekly newspaper, on charges of […]

Juan Cole

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3 Turks 307 Other Foreign Fighters In

3 Turks, 307 other Foreign Fighters in Custody The Kurdish militias say they have arrested three Turks, with Turkish passports and cellphones, whom they believe […]

Juan Cole

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Civilian Flights In And Out Of Baghdad

Civilian Flights In And Out Of Baghdad

Civilian Flights in and out of Baghdad Airport Halted As a result of the missile attack on the DHL plane this weekend, Coalition authorities have […]

Juan Cole

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Lebanons Hizbullah In Iraq Nyts James

Lebanons Hizbullah In Iraq Nyts James

Lebanon’s Hizbullah in Iraq The NYT’s James Risen has an article about the Lebanese Shiite group, Hizbullah, “infiltrating” Iraq. If one reads the article carefully, […]

Juan Cole

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Allegations About Iran And Al Qaeda

Allegations About Iran And Al Qaeda

Allegations about Iran and al-Qaeda Here we go again. Okaz, the Saudi tabloid, alleged that Saif al-Adil al-Misri, a high al-Qaeda official, ordered the recent […]

Juan Cole

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3 Us Soldiers Dead In Iraq Bodies

3 Us Soldiers Dead In Iraq Bodies

3 US soldiers Dead in Iraq, Bodies Looted Two US soldiers driving through Mosul were attacked and driven off the road, crashing their vehicle. Either […]

Juan Cole

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