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  1. Voice from the Arab Press: China’s Iran policy, Israel vote, Hezbollah US talks

    China between the Gulf and Iran Asharq al-Awsat, UK, August 30 For more stories from The Media Line…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Baghdad #Beijing #breakingnews #China #Iran #Iraq #magazine #MiddleEast #Oman #StraitofHormuz #Tehran #TheMediaLine
    newsbeep.com/721214/

  2. Kurdish forces lose ground as US backs centralized governments in Syria and Iraq

    The disbanding of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on August 25 and the dissolution of the Kurdish-led Autonomous…
    #Conflict #Conflicts #War #Ahmedal-Sharaa #baghdad #Damascus #Iraq #kurdishcontrolledsyria #Kurds #Syria
    europesays.com/3234640/

  3. The Mongol conqueror #Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu captured #Baghdad and ended the Abbasid #caliphate in the city in 1258.

    I just read a text that asserts that around 25 years later, the Muslim vizier Shams al-Din Juvayni was involved in a plot to restore the caliphate, but he was put to death when Hulegu's grandson Arghun overthrew his uncle Teguder Ahmad. This is probably just slander, but it is surprising slander in a #Syriac text written in the late 1310s!

    I'm (re)reading the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma.

    #IslamicHistory #MongolEmpire

  4. 🌹 🇮🇷 ❤️ ✨ January 3rd commemorates the General Qassem Soleimani! ☝🏽🇵🇸

    "Millions of Iranians mourn Gen. Soleimani, PMU deputy in Qom "

    "Millions of Iranian mourners have taken part in a funeral procession for the late commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his companions, including the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis".

    presstv.ir/Detail/2020/01/06/6

    #PressTv #Soleimani #Iran #Muhandis #Daesh #Baghdad #USA #trump

  5. A shocking claim about the Baghdad bombings of 1950 and 1951

    Avi Shlaim claims to have uncovered undeniable proof that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community, forcing them to flee Iraq and settle in Israel.

    #iraq #baghdad #BaghdadBombings #israel #zionism #jews #sephardims #palestine #AviShlaim #history #books #bookstodon

    spectator.co.uk/article/the-sh