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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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Muqtada: The US is the Great Satan The radical young Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr accused the American administration in Iraq of pressuring Friday prayers preachers […]

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Mortar Round Lands Near Abdul Aziz Al

Mortar Round Lands Near Abdul Aziz Al

Mortar Round lands Near Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Australia’s News.com.au reports that a dud mortar round landed near the mosque hosting preacher Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader […]

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Telecom Contracts Under Suspicion Of

Telecom Contracts Under Suspicion Of

Telecom contracts Under Suspicion of Graft The Financial Times says that the Pentagon is investigating the interim Iraqi minister of communications and two officials of […]

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Poor Us Military Intelligence In Iraq

Poor Us Military Intelligence In Iraq

Poor US Military Intelligence in Iraq The Associated Press did a story on Friday on the US military’s lack of good human intelligence skills and […]

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Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al-Hakim Faults Plan for Transition to Sovereignty Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a member of the […]

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Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip through Palestine, Sheraton Hotels Guerrillas fired rockets into the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton in downtown Baghdad on Thursday. Several persons were […]

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Gunmen Trade Fire With Guards Of Japans

Gunmen Trade Fire With Guards Of Japans

Gunmen trade fire with Guards of Japan’s Embassy Gunmen began firing on Wednesday night near the Japanese embassy in Baghdad. The embassy guards got into […]

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Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji added to IGC Salma al-Khafaji has been added to the Interim Governing Council, succeeding the slain Aqilah al-Hashimi, who was assassinated. Al-Khafaji is a […]

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Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season of Bombs The 8 people killed in Iraq since Wednesday by various guerrilla bombings and attacks are dwarfed by the disaster in Istanbul. A […]

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