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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...
Russia condemns Israeli strikes on Iran, warns of regional destabilization
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a sharply worded statement on Thursday condemning Israel’s overnight military strikes on Iranian...
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...
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...
Turkey and Qatar reshape Syria’s future as Trump pivots away from US intervention
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Turkey and Qatar have become pivotal players in President Donald Trump’s redefined Middle East, taking the lead...
Tom Barrack appointed U.S. Special Envoy for Syria, backs Trump’s Middle East reset
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Tom Barrack, the former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, announced on...
U.S. tech giants back UAE Stargate AI megaproject with Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI onboard
ABU DHABI (Realist English). Major American tech firms including Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle, and OpenAI are backing the “UAE Stargate” artificial...
Druze leader warns Israel: Syria massacre is a red flag for our own security
AKKO (Realist English). Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, issued a stark warning on...
Syrian lawyers call for investigation into attacks on Druze community in Suwayda
DAMASCUS (Realist English). The Committee for Human Rights and Public Freedoms of the Syrian Bar Association’s Suwayda branch has issued...
Russia remains EU’s fourth-largest gas supplier despite diversification push
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Russia remained the European Union’s fourth-largest supplier of natural gas in 2025, exporting almost 38bn cubic metres...
From voice of support to figurehead: Pahlavi seeks to steer Iran’s uprising
TEHRAN (Realist English). Protests across Iran entered their third week on Sunday amid a markedly harsher crackdown by the authorities,...
Venezuela’s real power lies beyond the presidency after Maduro’s arrest
CARACAS (Realist English). A day after U.S. special forces swept into the Venezuelan capital and detained former president Nicolas Maduro,...
Khamenei says Iran will not retreat in face of foreign-backed unrest
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic would stand firm...
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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