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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

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Bin Laden Preaches Against U

Bin Laden Preaches Against U

Bin Laden Preaches against U.S. Asim Daraz, an Egyptian journalist who lived in Afghanistan and associated for a while with Usama Bin Laden, showed videotape […]

Juan Cole

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Architecture Of Middle East

Architecture Of Middle East

The Architecture of the Middle East It has been suggested that “American strategic planners intend to attempt to replace the existing Sykes-Picot/Balfour architecture of the […]

Juan Cole

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Instability In Afghanistan Ability Of

Instability In Afghanistan Ability Of

Instability in Afghanistan The ability of terrorist forces (whether al-Qaida or Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) to set off a huge car bomb explosion in Kabul, killing at […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Shiites And Hizbullah There Seems

Iraqi Shiites And Hizbullah There Seems

Iraqi Shi`ites and Hizbullah There seems to me to be a contradiction between the stated plans of the hawks in the Bush administration to establish […]

Juan Cole

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More On Sawa And Gutting Voice Of

More On Sawa And Gutting Voice Of

More on Sawa and Gutting the Voice of America I’ve been listening to Radio Sawa, and the situation is even worse than I thought. It […]

Juan Cole

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Al Qaeda In Holland Dutch Prosecutors

Al Qaeda In Holland Dutch Prosecutors

al-Qaeda in Holland Dutch prosecutors in Rotterdam said on Monday that they had arrested 8 persons who belong to a radical Islamic group that provided […]

Juan Cole

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Gutting Voa And Radio Sawa Some News

Gutting Voa And Radio Sawa Some News

Gutting VOA and Radio Sawa Some news reports from the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers this week have talked about the amazing success of […]

Juan Cole

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Explosions Near Kabul Airport There

Explosions Near Kabul Airport There

Explosions near Kabul Airport There were three explosions near Kabul airport on Saturday, according to the Turkish commander of the peace keeping forces in Afghanistan. […]

Juan Cole

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Combatting Extremism In Yemen Asharq Al

Combatting Extremism In Yemen Asharq Al

Combatting extremism in Yemen Asharq al-Awsat reports that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih has formed a council of senior Muslim clergymen to preach to Yemen’s […]

Juan Cole

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