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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability
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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability

Juan Cole

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

01/23/2026 By The Conversation

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

01/23/2026 By William D. Hartung

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Murderers Gibbet Cole In Salon

Murderers Gibbet Cole In Salon

The Murderer’s Gibbet Cole in Salon.com on the Saddam Execution My article on the execution of Saddam is out in Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ The body […]

Juan Cole

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For Whom Bell Tolls Top Ten Ways Us

For Whom Bell Tolls Top Ten Ways Us

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein The old monster swung from the gallows this morning at 6 am […]

Juan Cole

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Riverbend Is Back Riverbend Weighs In

Riverbend Is Back Riverbend Weighs In

Riverbend is Back Riverbend weighs in on the condition of Iraq and Saddam’s impending execution. I disagree with her about Jalal Talabani (the old-time Kurdish […]

Juan Cole

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Alexandrovna Guest Op Ed Saddams

Alexandrovna Guest Op Ed Saddams

Alexandrovna Guest Op-Ed: Saddam’s Execution and the Campaign Against Iran Saddam’s Execution is about Iran Larisa Alexandrovna ‘PROLOGUE: When someone does something obviously egregious, we […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Kill 5 Gis Security Alert

Guerrillas Kill 5 Gis Security Alert

Guerrillas Kill 5 GIs Security Alert over Saddam Sentence Al-Aamiri killing Roils Shiite Politics The US military announced that Iraqi guerrillas killed 5 GIs on […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Demonstrate In Najaf Sunnis

Thousands Demonstrate In Najaf Sunnis

Thousands Demonstrate in Najaf; Sunnis Clash with Gov’t in Baghdad over Saddam Sentence; Ford blasts W., Cheney on Iraq Iraqi guerrillas killed three US GIs […]

Juan Cole

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Polk Guest Editorial Pros And Cons Of

Polk Guest Editorial Pros And Cons Of

Polk Guest Editorial: Pros and Cons of ISG The Baker-Hamilton Study: Pluses and Minuses William R. Polk ‘In recent days, as you know, there has […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Kill 7 Gis Blow Up 52

Guerrillas Kill 7 Gis Blow Up 52

Guerrillas Kill 7 GIs, blow up 52 Iraqis AFP rounds up the violence in Iraq on Tuesday. 7 more US GIs were killed, and bombings […]

Juan Cole

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Ford And Foreign Policy Snapshots From

Ford And Foreign Policy Snapshots From

Ford and Foreign Policy: Snapshots from the 1970s Former President Gerald Ford has died at 93. A Wolverine star of the early 1930s at the […]

Juan Cole

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