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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....
Russia’s policy towards Afghanistan is ineffective and devoid of initiative — Andrey Serenko
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia's policy towards Afghanistan is ineffective, devoid of initiative and results, Andrei Serenko, Head of the Center...
US Treasury chief says sanctions helped trigger Iran unrest
DAVOS (Realist English). US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly acknowledged that American sanctions played a role in destabilising Iran’s...
Oxfam warns billionaire wealth hits record as inequality deepens
LONDON (Realist English). The combined wealth of the world’s billionaires has climbed to a record $18.3 trillion, with the super-rich...
Nearly 4,000 killed in Iran protests, rights group says
TEHRAN (Realist English). At least 3,919 people have been killed during the recent wave of protests in Iran and the...
Committee for the Defense of the AAC in Bratislava Calls for Release of Detained Clergy
BRATISLAVA (Realist English). A meeting of the Committee for the Defense of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) and Christianity in...
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...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
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