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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists in Monday’s Wave of Attacks Special representative of the British government in Iraq, Jeremy Greenstock, told the BBC that the modus […]

Juan Cole

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Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh, Portugal, will not send Troops The US military’s desperate search for an international division of peace enforcers in Iraq has pretty much completely failed. […]

Juan Cole

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57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57% of Americans want some Troops to Come Home; 50% of Americans Disapprove Bush Handling of Iraq According to a CNN/ USA Today poll taken […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraq’s Neighbors meet on Crisis The foreign ministers of Iraq’s neighbors will meet in Damascus in early November, with interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari representing […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns of Secret Plans to Dismember Iraq In an interview with al-Zaman, Iran’s Supreme Jurisprudent, Ali Khamenei, said that he was extremely worried by […]

Juan Cole

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Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic, Pessimistic Views of Kurdistan A friend of mine in northern Iraq sent me the following recently, which I reprint with permission. It is more […]

Juan Cole

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66 Of Europeans Think Iraq War Was

66 Of Europeans Think Iraq War Was

66% of Europeans think Iraq War was Unjustified Meanwhile, a European poll found that two-thirds of Europeans felt the US war on Iraq was unjustified. […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Who Was Behind Baghdad

Breaking News Who Was Behind Baghdad

Breaking News: Who was behind the Baghdad Blitz of October 27? As you all know by now, car bombings targeted a Red Cross HQ and […]

Juan Cole

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Was Wolfowitz Target Brig

Was Wolfowitz Target Brig

Was Wolfowitz the Target? Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey denied that the rocket attack on the al-Rasheed Hotel was aimed at assassinating Deputy Secretary of Defense […]

Juan Cole

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