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Armenian-Egyptian relations: facts and statistics
CAIRO (Realist English). Egyptian-Armenian relations are characterized by historical specifics and close and constructive relations of cooperation, especially in light...
Alexander Tsinker on Benjamin Netanyahu, the new coalition in Israel and the court trial of the prime minister
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The head of the international expert center ICES Alexander Tsinker answered the questions of the Realist...
Turkey agrees to withdraw troops from Syria: Al-Watan
DAMASCUS (Realist English). After the Moscow meeting of the defense ministers of Turkey, Syria and Russia, Turkey agreed to withdraw...
Netanyahu has formed a new Israeli government
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Benjamin Netanyahu has formed the most right-wing government in Israel's history. This is reported by the...
US barred Türkiye from carrying out military operation in Syria: Kurdish military commander
LONDON (Realist English). The United States has barred Turkey from conducting a ground military operation in Syria. This was stated...
Turkey “gave time” to Russia to withdraw the Kurdish militia from Tell Rifaat
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Russian officials are trying to convince Damascus and the Kurdish militia to leave the Syrian city of...
US and Russia urge Türkiye to avoid escalation of violence in Syria
DAMASCUS (Realist English). The United States and Russia have urged Turkey to avoid escalating violence in northern Syria, Bloomberg reports....
IRGC increases presence in West Azerbaijan province
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it is bolstering its forces in Iran’s northwestern region to...
Israeli counterintelligence spies on journalists via phones
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The Israeli counterintelligence service Shabak uses the database obtained from mobile communication companies to spy on...
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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