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Pakistan-Afghanistan peace talks collapse in Istanbul after four days of negotiations
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have collapsed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, with Islamabad...
Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to 48-hour ceasefire after deadly border clashes
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire after some of the worst fighting since...
Pakistan seizes 19 Afghan border posts after Taliban attacks
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Pakistani security forces have captured 19 Afghan border posts following what Islamabad described as “unprovoked cross-border attacks”...
UK government secretly relocated thousands of Afghans after major data leak
LONDON (Realist English). The UK government ran a secret multibillion-pound relocation programme for Afghans after a catastrophic data breach exposed...
Iran to invest $5bn in Afghanistan’s iron ore to boost steel output and regional influence
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran plans to invest $5 billion in Afghanistan’s iron ore sector, positioning itself for significant gains in...
Russia’s Afghan failure: No allies, no leverage, no strategy
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s greatest weakness today may well be its lack of allies. Apart from a possible exception in...
Britain supports the Kiev regime to the detriment of Afghanistan
KABUL (Realist English). Britain's decision to reduce the amount of financial assistance to Afghanistan is not related to London's critical...
What caused the growing tensions in relations between Iran and Taliban Afghanistan?
TEHRAN (Realist English). Several sources in Iran and Afghanistan at once claim that the real reason for the increase in...
Afghanistan’s economy is on the verge of collapse, 85% of the population lives in poverty: UN
KABUL (Realist English). Almost 34 million Afghans live in poverty, and the country's economy is on the verge of collapse....
Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s new supreme leader as regional war intensifies
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Assembly of Experts has appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
China says Middle East war “should never have happened” as Beijing prepares for Trump visit
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the war in the Middle East “should never have happened,” warning...
Trump attends dignified transfer for six US soldiers killed in Middle East war
DOVER (Realist English). US President Donald Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony on Saturday at Dover Air Force Base for...
Iran pledges to halt attacks on neighboring states as war with US and Israel escalates
DUBAI (Realist English). Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran would halt attacks against neighboring countries as the war with the...
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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