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Myanmar’s Civil War
The Nation
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August 23, 2025
Four years into Myanmar’s civil war, the numbers alone tell a devastating story: 82,000 lives lost, 3.2 million displaced, and a central government that controls perhaps a fifth of its territory. The rest of the country has fractured into enclaves...
Twelver Shiism – a branch of Islam that serves both as a spiritual and political force in Iran and beyond
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is the second-largest tradition within Islam overall, following the Sunni tradition. Iran is the only country to have Twelver Shiism as its...
Iran's Supreme Court Upholds Activist's Second Death Sentence
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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August 18, 2025
Iran's top court has upheld the death sentence against imprisoned labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, months after overturning her first death sentence due to legal ambiguities. The first death sentence was overturned in October 2024, when the...
This Was Brainerd - Aug. 22
Brainerd Dispatch - Minnesota
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August 22, 2025
AUGUST 22 20 years ago (2005) A Brainerd soldier was shot and wounded in the right arm while on patrol in Iraq, his family said yesterday. Sgt. Eric Bock, 25, a 1998 Brainerd High School grad, was serving as gunner on a Humvee but will return to...
The tectonic vibe shift absolutely remaking American culture
The Blaze
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August 18, 2025
Republicans flood social media with sharp, hysterical, and widely shared videos. They crack down on crime in the streets and enjoy rising poll numbers. Democrats, by contrast, gasp for air, wag fingers, and whine. This isn’t just another swing in...
US confirms change to military mission in Iraq
The National News
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The US confirmed to The National a change in the status of its military mission in Iraq, which it said was transitioning to a bilateral security partnership. The move comes ahead of next month's scheduled withdrawal from certain areas in the...
State rests case in Sapry murder-insanity trial
The Laconia Daily Sun - New Hampshire
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LACONIA — State of New Hampshire prosecutors rested their case against Hassan Sapry on Friday afternoon. He’ll have his opportunity to make his defense next week, beginning Tuesday morning. Sapry, 27, is charged with nine counts including first-...
Victoria Canal shares abuse allegations; social media users link claims to a barefoot peace activist-musician and compare him to Trump
The Economic Times
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August 18, 2025
Singer-songwriter Victoria Canal has alleged on Instagram that she was subjected to sexual abuse and grooming by a “powerful, decades-older man” in the music industry. On her 27th birthday, she refrained from naming the person who abused her 8...
Iraq's al-Anbar pushes for mine-free future: 53,000 war remnants removed
Shafaq News
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2025-08-15T17:29:00+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News — Al-Anbar Al-Anbar has carried out one of Iraq’s largest mine-clearing operations, removing more than 53,000 landmines, improvised explosive devices, and other remnants of war...
Why Iraq's marshes are 'treasures we need to fight for'
The National News
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One of Iraq’s most beautiful natural wonders and a cradle of surviving Sumerian traditions, the southern marshes now evoke more grief than awe. Aymen al-Ameri reflects upon their deterioration in An Imaginary Museum on the Ground, a photography...
Here's why an American hero is playing in the 2025 Ally Challenge
Golfweek - Virginia
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Lt. Col. Dan Rooney believes in the concept of life he called the divine echo. It's the idea that a meaningful coincidence points to a higher purpose and explains why he teed off on Friday thanks to a sponsor's exemption at Warwick Hills Golf and...
Baghdad hails success of Arbaeen security plan
Shafaq News
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2025-08-15T14:24:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Baghdad Operations Command announced, on Friday, the successful execution of its security and coordination plan for the Arbaeen pilgrimage, one of the world’s largest...
Tehran-Baghdad security agreement prevents foreign interference: Iran’s top security official
Tehran Times
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August 17, 2025
TEHRAN – Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani has stressed that Tehran and Baghdad must not allow third parties to undermine their shared security and stability, pointing to the recently signed Iran-Iraq security...
Iraq starts excavation of suspected ISIS mass grave
Yahoo News
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Iraqi officials have begun the excavation of what is believed to be a mass grave left behind by ISIS during its rampage across the country a decade ago. Local authorities are working with the judiciary, forensic investigations, Iraq's Martyrs'...
Supporting Displaced Iraqis with Loans and Training
Iraq Business News
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August 17, 2025
By John Lee. Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), in cooperation with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Iraqi Company for Bank Guarantees (ICBG), and several Iraqi banks, has provided significant financial and training support to displaced...
CBE Hosts Iraqi Delegation to Discuss Enhancing Cooperation, Exchanging Experiences
Sada Elbalad
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August 17, 2025
Sun 17 Aug 2025 | 08:18 PM The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) hosted a high-level delegation from the Central Bank of Iraq headed by Ammar Khalaf, Deputy Governor, as part of Egypt's keenness to support cooperation with Arab countries and exchange...
44 artifacts retreieved in Iraq’s Maysan Province
Shafaq News
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2025-08-17T16:56:35+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Maysan Police in Iraq’s Maysan Province recovered 44 ancient artifacts, the Directorate for the Protection of Antiquities and Heritage announced on Sunday. In a statement,...
Graydon Carter, the man who knows Hollywood best: ‘Seeing the Kardashians on a magazine cover is the end of civilization’
El País
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August 23, 2025
Getting an interview with Graydon Carter, 76, is almost as difficult as gaining access to the rich and powerful he has surrounded himself with since he began working as a journalist in the 1970s. Last March, the former editor of the U.S. edition...
Muslims Mark Arbaeen: Pilgrims Flock into Holy Shrines in Iraqi City of Karbala
Al Manar
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August 14, 2025
Increasing around 10 percent in comparison with last year’s figures, 22 to 25 million pilgrims have flocked into the Holy Shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen anniversary (commemoration the 40th day following Imam Hussein’s...
Global Religion in the 21st Century
Utne Reader
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How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In God in the Tumult of the Global Square(University of California Press, 2015), by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego and John Soboslai shows how religion has leapt, in some contradictory ways,...