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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Four Us Troops Killed Guerrillas In Al

Four US Troops Killed Guerrillas in al-Anbar province killed 3 Marines on Thursday. In Baghdad, guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill one US soldier […]

Juan Cole

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Sistanis Office Calls On Aides To

Sistanis Office Calls On Aides To

Sistani’s Office Calls on Aides to Encourage Voting Kurdish Troops to Guard Polling Stations? Al-Hayat: The office of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani called on supporters […]

Juan Cole

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Mosul Paralyzed As House To House

Mosul Paralyzed As House To House

Mosul Paralyzed as House to House Searching Continues 10 Die in Samarra, Mahmudiyah Violence Az-Zaman: Schools, offices and shops were closed in Mosul, a city […]

Juan Cole

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Going To War With Clothing We Have

Going To War With Clothing We Have

Going to War with the Clothing We Have The Civil Air Patrol at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany is making a plea for help […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Digital Photo Archive At

Iraq Digital Photo Archive at Washington Post The Washington Post online is setting up what is essentially a digital photograph archive for the US soldiers […]

Juan Cole

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Racism And Orientalism In Israeli

Racism And Orientalism In Israeli

Racism and Orientalism in the Israeli Academy I can’t see anything but racism in the discourse of either side in this court case in Haifa, […]

Juan Cole

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Press Roundup For Wednesday 1222 Josh

Press Roundup For Wednesday 1222 Josh

Press Roundup for Wednesday 12/22 Josh White of the Washington Post reports that US soldiers at a base near Samarra routinely take mortar and machine […]

Juan Cole

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Brooks On Moment Of Hope David Brooks

Brooks On Moment Of Hope David Brooks

Brooks on Moment of Hope David Brooks has a glib op-ed today in the New York Times in which he celebrates a moment of hope […]

Juan Cole

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Mosul Attack Leaves 22 Dead 51 Wounded

Mosul Attack Leaves 22 Dead 51 Wounded

Mosul Attack leaves 22 Dead, 51 Wounded The Guardian reports that a rocket and mortar attack on a US military base has left nearly two […]

Juan Cole

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