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China and U.S. hold 2025 maritime safety talks in Hawaii amid efforts to manage military risks
HONOLULU (Realist English). China and the United States convened the second working-group meeting and the 2025 annual session under the...
Read moreGermany boosts incentives for military recruits as security concerns grow
BERLIN (Realist English). Germany’s coalition government has approved a new package of incentives to expand voluntary military service, reflecting a...
Read moreUS asks Yemen’s Aden-based government about joining Gaza stabilisation force
ADEN (Realist English). The Trump administration has approached Yemen’s internationally recognised government (IRG) in Aden about potentially contributing troops to...
Read moreWashington’s delayed Global Posture Review fuels concern over potential U.S. drawdown in Europe
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Months after it was expected, the Biden administration’s Global Posture Review — the strategic assessment that determines...
Read moreTrump confirms plan to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite Israeli and US security concerns
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia,...
Read moreTurkey prepares major troop deployment for planned Gaza peacekeeping mission
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is assembling a large peacekeeping contingent for potential deployment to Gaza as part of a US-brokered...
Read moreIran’s army chief says military is expanding defenses amid “continuous threats”
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Army Chief Major General Amir Hatami says the country is accelerating efforts to strengthen its defensive...
Read moreOver 60% of expected PLA attendees absent from Party plenum amid corruption crackdown
BEIJING (Realist English). President Xi Jinping’s tightening grip over China’s armed forces was on full display this autumn as an...
Read moreChina’s sweeping purge of PLA generals intensifies as Xi’s anti-corruption campaign reaches highest ranks
BEIJING (Realist English). Even by the standards of President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive, the scale of recent investigations into alleged...
Read moreUS Air Force seeks concepts for new $500,000 counter-air missile despite cheaper options already in service
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US Air Force is soliciting industry proposals for a new $500,000-per-unit counter-air missile, part of an...
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Putin and Xi reaffirm strategic partnership in New Year video talks
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4, marking...
Pompeo hints at US involvement in unrest and attacks in Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Former US secretary of state and ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo has made a rare public statement...
Khamenei warns of regional war amid US military build-up in the Gulf
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned on Sunday that any US attack on the Islamic Republic would...
Trump warns Iran as US carrier group moves closer, raising fears of imminent military clash
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The risk of open conflict between the United States and Iran intensified after US President Donald Trump...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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