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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

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No post-1998 Nuclear Weapons Program in Iraq The Iraqis never tried to revive their nuclear weapons program after the UN inspectors dismantled it, according to […]

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Benign Autocracy In Iraq Is Recipe For

Benign Autocracy in Iraq is a Recipe for Disaster My entry in an email discussion of the proposal made by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev […]

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Us Soldier Khalidiya Police Chief

US Soldier, Khalidiya Police Chief Killed Guerillas Monday killed a 1st Armored Division soldier in central Baghdad with rpg fire as he was patrolling. In […]

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High Baathist Official Held In Najaf

High Baathist Official Held In Najaf

High Baathist official Held in Najaf Bombing Kareem Ghatheeth, a Baath Party “Security Director,” was captured recently in Najaf by Badr Corps militiament in a […]

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New Private Television Company In Iraq

New Private Television Company in Iraq It was announced Monday that IBC, a privately owned corporation in Iraqi hands, would launch the first privately owned […]

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Turkmen Choose Leader Sami Shabak

Turkmen Choose Leader Sami Shabak

Turkmen Choose Leader Sami Shabak, a prominent member of the governing council of the Iraq Turkmen Front, angrily resigned Monday, accusing the party of being […]

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Ayatollah Hussein Al Sadr Steven R

Ayatollah Hussein al-Sadr Steven R. Weisman reports of the US Secretary of State in Baghdad, Colin Powell: “On Sunday evening he dined with the senior […]

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Us Troops One Killed Three Wounded

US Troops: One Killed, Three Wounded Guerrillas killed one US paratrooper and wounded three others on Sunday near Falluja with a roadside bomb that blew […]

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5 Members Of Interim Governing Council

5 Members of Interim Governing Council Press for Power Ahmad Chalabi, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and three other members of the American-appointed Interim Governing Council are […]

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