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Hamas frees 20 Israeli hostages as Israel releases nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under Gaza truce deal
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Hamas released 20 Israeli hostages on Monday as part of a wide-ranging prisoner swap agreement designed...
U.S. to deploy 200 troops to Israel to support Gaza ceasefire mission
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States will send about 200 military personnel to Israel to assist in implementing and monitoring...
Israel ratifies ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas under Trump peace plan
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israel’s cabinet has approved a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas, paving the way for the suspension...
Israel, Hamas signal readiness to begin Trump’s Gaza peace plan
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israel’s government and military announced early Saturday that they are preparing to implement the first stage of...
Hamas and Turkey condemn Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Hamas on Wednesday night denounced Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, calling it a “crime of piracy...
Israel’s cabinet confirms David Zini as new Shin Bet chief amid controversy
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israel’s cabinet on Tuesday evening unanimously approved the appointment of retired Major General David Zini as the...
Speculation grows over Gaza war deal as Netanyahu heads to White House
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The decision to add a press conference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald...
Netanyahu tells UN Israel crushed Iran’s nuclear program, rejects Palestinian statehood
NEW YORK (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, declared that...
IDF says more than half a million civilians have fled Gaza City amid ongoing offensive
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said late Sunday that roughly 550,000 Palestinian civilians have now evacuated...
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...
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...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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