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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

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

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Bahrain Diplomat Wounded in Baghdad Bombing Near Iran Embassy The Bahraini charge d’affaires in Baghdad was shot in the hand while he was on his […]

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British Operations in Southern Iraq A British reservist writes: With regard to your recent comment regarding the South of Iraq: “Most of that area has […]

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Legalistic War A US military reader in Iraq writes: You wrote “These incidents show a benefit to the guerrillas of their car bomb attacks on […]

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Egyptian Envoy Kidnapped Sunni Arab Demonstrations against SCIRI in Tikrit, Baghdad The chief of mission of the Egyptian embassy in Iraq was kidnapped late Saturday […]

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Ahmadov on Iraq and Chechnya Guest comment from Azerbaijan comparing the Iraq and Chechnya Guerrilla Wars, by Dr. Alpay Ahmadov in Baku: . . . […]

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Saturday Toll 26 Killed, Nearly 50 Wounded Hilla Bombings Kill 6, Injure 26 Guerrilla violence killed 26 and injured nearly 50 altogether on Saturday. In […]

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Iranian-Iraqis returning, Expelling New Owners A reader writes from Iraq: “I picked up this document [Arabic pdf] from a disgruntled Iraqi in the Baghdad airport […]

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Breaking News: Iraq UN Ambassador Charges Marines with Murder of his Nephew Suicide Bomber Kills 20 at Police Recruitment Center Iraq’s ambassador to the UN, […]

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