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Iran confirms 150 Israeli targets hit in large-scale retaliation, warns more strikes may follow
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out a broad retaliatory operation against Israel, hitting at least...
Strait of Hormuz at risk as Middle East tensions mount over potential Israeli strike on Iran
DUBAI (Realist English). Global maritime operators are on high alert amid growing fears that a military confrontation between Israel and...
IRGC vows retaliation after top commander Salami killed in Israeli strike on Tehran
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has condemned what it called a “brutal act of aggression” after...
Israeli strikes on Iran enabled by year-long intelligence buildup, IDF official says
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Recent Israeli strikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, military infrastructure, and high-ranking personnel were made possible by...
Khamenei vows severe retaliation after Israeli strikes kill IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has issued a stern warning to Israel following a series...
Netanyahu says Israel struck Iranian nuclear sites to prevent ‘existential threat’
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in an early morning address that Israel had carried out...
UK trade envoy visits Israel despite Gaza-linked freeze on new negotiations
HAIFA (Realist English). British trade envoy Lord Ian Austin arrived in Israel this week to promote bilateral commercial ties, just...
Two Israeli embassy staffers killed in DC museum shooting
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Two Israeli embassy staff members were shot and killed Tuesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum in...
UK, France, and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza offensive
LONDON (Realist English). The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada have issued an unprecedented joint statement demanding that...
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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