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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025:  The US and the Middle East
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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

Juan Cole

The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

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Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

12/28/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

12/28/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Franks Broaches Military Dictatorship

Franks Broaches Military Dictatorship

Franks broaches Military Dictatorship Friends, the Republic is in real danger. It is not the UN black helicopters that threaten it, but elements of the […]

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Police Stations Bombed Airplane Struck

Police Stations Bombed Airplane Struck

Police Stations Bombed, Airplane struck by Missile Powerful carbombs exploded at police stations in Baquba and Khan Bani Saad, northeast of Baghdad, early Saturday morning. […]

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Bomb Kills 4 Wounds 20 At Liquor Store

Bomb Kills 4 Wounds 20 At Liquor Store

Bomb Kills 4, Wounds 20 at Liquor Store An assailant threw a bomb at liquor stores in south Baghdad on Friday, killing 4 persons and […]

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Al Yawir Warns Of Lack Of Transparency

Al Yawir Warns Of Lack Of Transparency

Al-Yawir warns of lack of Transparency in Elections Meanwhile, the leader of the Sunni Shimr tribe, Ghazi al-Yawir [Yawer] (a member of the Interim Governing […]

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