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US threatens Iraq with sanctions over Iran-backed groups’ role in next government
BAGHDAD (Realist English). The United States has warned senior Iraqi politicians that it could impose sanctions on the Iraqi state...
Iraq’s prime minister wins largest bloc in parliament, but government formation likely to drag on
BAGHDAD (Realist English). Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s political bloc won the most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary election, final results...
Iraq aims to end reliance on Iranian gas by 2028
BAGHDAD (Realist English). Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has pledged to end the country’s $4 billion dependence on Iranian...
Iran and Iraq sign 21-point accord to deepen economic and security ties
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran and Iraq have signed a comprehensive 21-point agreement to strengthen cooperation across economic, political and security...
Iraq unveils transport project worth $17 billion
BAGHDAD (Realist English). Iraq has launched an ambitious 1,200 km long railway and automobile infrastructure project covering the entire territory...
Iran is ready to share its military experience and best practices in the defense industry with Iraq
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, announced...
Half a million Iraqi children died because of Madeleine Albright’s politics: journalist from Iraq
BAGHDAD (Realist English). On March 23, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed away. She was 85 years old....
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
Hezbollah excluded from the ceasefire: Lapshin explains why Iran agreed to the pause
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has assessed the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, calling it a...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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