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Italy suspends defense agreement with Israel
ROME (Realist English). Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that she would not renew the defense treaty with Israel, first approved...
Read morePakistan army chief arrives in Iran for new mediation push
TEHRAN (Realist English). Pakistan’s military chief, General Asim Munir, has arrived in Tehran as part of a new round of mediation...
Read moreTurkish Defense Ministry: EU’s refusal to cooperate with Ankara will harm Europe’s security more than reduction of US forces
ANKARA (Realist English). Amid the Trump administration’s reassessment of security guarantees for Europe, Turkey has stepped up its efforts to integrate...
Read moreRoman Gofman: from tank crewman to Mossad chief
TEL AVIV (Realist English). On April 12, Major General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Roman Gofman, the military secretary to...
Read more$4.7 billion for interceptors: Iran war forces US to shift defense industry to “wartime footing”
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US Department of Defense has signed a $4.7 billion contract with Lockheed Martin to accelerate production of...
Read moreBritain to train 10 Turkish instructor pilots and nearly 100 technicians for Typhoon fighters
LONDON (Realist English). Turkey and Britain have concluded an agreement on training and technical support as part of Ankara’s multi-billion dollar...
Read moreGeneral Petraeus: Some NATO countries let the US down in the Iran war, Spain outright refused bases
NEW YORK (Realist English). In an interview with CNN published on April 9, former CIA director and commander of international forces...
Read moreFrance allocates an additional €36 billion for defense in 2026–2030
PARIS (Realist English). On April 9, French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin presented to lawmakers an updated military budget for 2026–2030,...
Read morePentagon: Operation “Epic Fury” destroyed 80% of Iran’s air defense, 150 ships and 450 missile depots
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Speaking at a Pentagon press conference on April 8, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized that American forces...
Read moreUkraine prepares supersonic ballistic missiles
KYIV (Realist English). Ukrainian company Fire Point, the manufacturer of the Flamingo cruise missile, plans to create a new air defense...
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Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
Baku hysteria: Aliyev demands Russia remove Nagorno-Karabakh from Channel One map
BAKU (Realist English). Another bout of political allergy has struck Baku. Ilham Aliyev's dictatorial regime demanded "clear explanations" from Russia after...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
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