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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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Iraq Comes To London In Iraq Car Bombs

Iraq Comes to London In Iraq, Car Bombs and Attacks Kill 24, Wound Dozens in 24 Hours Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that [Arabic URL] its contacts […]

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Cole At Salon

Cole At Salon

Cole at Salon.com, Beliefnet My article at Salon.com, “The Time of Revenge Has Come, discusses the way Bush’s incompetent crusade in Iraq has made us […]

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Japan In Iraq Reposted By Permission

Japan In Iraq Reposted By Permission

Japan in Iraq Reposted by permission: ‘Shingetsu Newsletter No. 33 July 7, 2005 Japan’s GSDF mission to Samawa has continued to produce a steady drumbeat […]

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Statement Of Qaeda Al Jihad In Europe

Statement Of Qaeda Al Jihad In Europe

Statement of Qaeda al-Jihad in Europe This is my translation of the statement posted at the al-Qal3ah website claiming credit for the London bombings. – […]

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Implications Of London Bombing Attack

Implications Of London Bombing Attack

Implications of London Bombing The attack on London is not something it is easy for me to talk about in dry analytical terms. I’ve lived […]

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16 Killed 39 Wounded In Guerrilla

16 Killed 39 Wounded In Guerrilla

16 Killed, 39 Wounded in Guerrilla Violence Foreign Jihadis Target Shiite Badr Corps Al-Zaman: A statement attributed to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has announced […]

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103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand

103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand

103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Withdrawal of US Troops Gilber Achcar kindly shares his translation of an al-Hayat article: ‘[More than] 103 MPs Demand a Timetable […]

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More On Exit Strategies Informed

More On Exit Strategies Informed

More on Exit Strategies An informed reader writes, regarding the issue of an exit strategy from Iraq: ‘ First, most reasonable proposals run up against […]

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Dulaimi To Iran No Attack By Us From

Dulaimi To Iran No Attack By Us From

Dulaimi to Iran: No attack by US from Iraq AMS Repudiates Call for Sunni Votes Al-Hayat reports that Iraqi Minister of Defense Saadoun Dulaimi is […]

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