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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...
Turkey prepares major troop deployment for planned Gaza peacekeeping mission
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is assembling a large peacekeeping contingent for potential deployment to Gaza as part of a US-brokered...
Iran’s army chief says military is expanding defenses amid “continuous threats”
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Army Chief Major General Amir Hatami says the country is accelerating efforts to strengthen its defensive...
Iran calls for stronger coordination with China and Russia to counter U.S. unilateralism
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has emphasized the importance of strategic cooperation between Iran, China, and Russia...
Netanyahu rejects safe passage for Hamas militants despite Trump’s ceasefire plan
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any “safe exit” for around 200 Hamas fighters reportedly...
U.S. envoy calls Lebanon a “failed state” with a “dinosaur government,” urges normalization with Israel
MANAMA (Realist English). U.S. Ambassador Thomas Barrack described Lebanon as a “failed state” governed by “dinosaurs,” casting doubt on the...
Turkey fortifies nearly half its land borders with walls under nationwide security plan
ANKARA (Realist English). Nearly half of Turkey’s land borders are now protected by security walls as part of an extensive...
Iran condemns US decision to resume nuclear weapons testing as “regressive and dangerous”
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Thursday strongly condemned Washington’s decision to resume nuclear weapons testing,...
Lebanon orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly attack in Blida
BEIRUT (Realist English). Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has ordered the country’s army to confront any Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon...
“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...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
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...
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